I’m too old to play bad guys, says TV baddie Dominic West

THE Affair star Dominic West complains he is now typecast as a man with a wandering eye.

‘I’m still being asked to play philandering cads — my next part is going to be awful, as well,’ says the 49-year-old, referring to Stateless, a six- part TV series about an immigration detention centre.

However, it could be worse. ‘I had a year where I played Fred

THE curse of Brexit strikes in the most unlikey ways . . . Huw Edwards was invited to address the Hay Festival about the BBC News operation. Sadly, the News At Ten anchor’s Sunday appearance has been cancelled due to a rolling news crisis. ‘With Huw Edwards recalled to London to present the television West and [ Shakespearean baddy] Iago. I did enjoy it, but I don’t want to do that any more. I’m too old.

‘Although it’s easy to make evil dramatic, and it’s very hard to make virtue funny or interesting. Evil is actually quite boring. The defining feature of real evil is blandness.

‘As I get older, I want to have less and less to do with it.’ coverage of the EU election results, some of the festival stars including Stephen Fry join us in a gala variety show to conjure tales, cast spells, paint otters, tell love stories and interrogate the notion of balance on BBC News,’ a festival spokesman says. No substitute for the great Welshman, surely.