Imagine John Lennon played by Doctor Who ...

… but the Shallow Grave actor is considering a move into comedy after primal scream soul-baring of Lennon NakedBack in 1994, when Christopher Eccleston was playing a psychotic chartered accountant in Shallow Grave, he spent the best part of a day in a working mortuary pretending to be dead. There wasn't enough money to recreate the mortuary in a studio and, anyway, director Danny Boyle wanted to keep it real. So Eccleston, then 30 and best known for playing Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It thr...

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