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Ian MacEwan

Mr Loverman star Lennie James: ‘At the heart of this story is such a complex man!’

Lennie James in Mr Loverman.

Rolling home late and drunk after a night on the town, sharp-dressed Antigua-born family man Barrington Jedidiah Walker isn’t lying when he reassures his angry wife Carmel that he’s never cheated on her with another woman. 

What the 74-year-old Londoner (played by Line of Duty star Lennie James) isn’t telling his God-fearing spouse (Holby City’s Sharon D. Clarke) is that he’s actually been having a secret affair with his best friend Morris De La Roux (His Dark Materials actor Ariyon Bakare) for years! And on that same night, he decides his double life can no longer remain a secret…  

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