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War & Peace star Jack Lowden is set to play Morrissey in a forthcoming biopic, according to a new interview with the Daily Mail.
The Scottish actor, who played Nikolai Rostov in the recent television adaptation of War & Peace, will reportedly portray the former Smiths frontman in the days before he adopted his mononymous stage name.
The film will be called Steven, after Morrissey's first name, and will "explore the creative and social forces that led the singer to form The Smiths in the early eighties."
Speaking to Baz Bamigboye for his Mail column, Lowden said, "He's a massive icon.", adding, "He did a whole bunch of jobs while he figured out who he was. He came from a working-class background, and felt out of place there. He wanted to get out and escape into that explosion of music that was in Manchester around that time. It was exhilarating, and everyone was trying to find their place."
The film, Bamigboye reports, was written by Mark Gill, who will also direct it on location from mid-April.
