Article: A slippery player you can bank on

From 'Queer as Folk' to 'The Wire', Aidan Gillen is an actor who refuses to be typecast. Next up, he plays a high-flying City boy in 'Freefall', the BBC's new credit crisis drama. Gerard Gilbert meets him

The BBC seemed to have spotted the green shoots of economic recovery. Either that or they're guessing that we'll all be bored witless by the credit crunch by the end of the summer - the original transmission date for its big new recession drama, Freefall. Dominic Savage's improvised tale of bankers and their dodgy-debt bundles, and high-pressure salesmen flogging mortgages to people who can't afford them, was due to be shown at the very end of August. Wisely, that has now been brought ...

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