Louis Theroux has defended his 2000 documentary about Jimmy Savile, where he interviewed the disgraced presenter, saying it is “very far from soft journalism”.When Louis Met… Jimmy saw the documentarian follow Savile for a number of months, and included Theroux questioning the late presenter about whether he was a paedophile.
It was subsequently discovered by an investigation after Savile’s death in 2011 that he instigated abuse over a period of decades.As part of a Sunday Times interview with Theroux, an extract from his book is referenced, which sees the filmmaker reflect that “depending on your point of view, I either made a revealing programme about or failed to make a revealing programme about”.Elaborating, Theroux told the magazine:.
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