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Hannah Roberts

Colin Firth says playing father of Lockerbie victim ’emotionally challenging’

Colin Firth on set in Bathgate, Lothian during filming for a Sky series about the Lockerbie bombing (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

Colin Firth has said it was “emotionally challenging” to engage with and portray the experiences of a father whose daughter died in the Lockerbie plane bombing.

In a new Sky drama, actor Firth, 64, plays Dr Jim Swire, who has been campaigning for justice since his daughter Flora died when the Pan Am flight 103 was blown out of the sky above Scotland on December 21 1988.

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