TV & Film
Stephen Graham to play former Neo Nazi in new ITV true crime drama
The series will tell the true story of the infiltration of a Neo Nazi group
Stephen Graham will star in a new ITV crime drama telling the true story of how a Neo-Nazi group’s plan to kill an MP was foiled by an inside man.
The Walk In will see Graham take on the leading role of Matthew Collins, a reformed Neo Nazi working as a journalist for anti-racist organisation Hope not Hate.
In the five-part series, set to air next month, Collins will attempt to stop the radicalisation of young white men before it begins.
In order to do this, he identifies a Far Right Neo Nazi group marking itself out with a youthful clean-cut image, but hell bent on creating a race war.
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His aim is to infiltrate such organisations by running moles, or walk-ins, with the goal of publishing information online about their activities to expose and fracture them.
Despite repeated attempts, however, Collins wasn’t able to break into this particular group. Consequently, they continued to grow in strength, which eventually led to the horrific murder of MP Jo Cox.
Although the marches and the social media posts stopped, Collins knew the group would only have been driven underground and that he had probably lost all chance of getting information from within.
But in March 2017, he received an email from someone claiming to be a member; a mole ready to talk about a horrific plan to murder a second MP.
The series, written by acclaimed screenwriter Jeff Pope and directed by BAFTA award winning Paul Andrew Williams, has been billed as an explosive state-of-the-world series that ‘explores some of the most critical and relevant issues of modern times including racism, freedom of speech and terrorism’.
This isn’t the first time Graham has worked with Pope, with the actor appearing in Little Boy Blue, an ITV drama about the murder of Rhys Jones in Croxteth and subsequent police investigation.
The Walk In will air from Monday October 3rd, with the remaining four episodes then being shown weekly.
All episodes will be available as a boxset drop on the ITV Hub following the first episode.