RIVER CITY ACTOR ON HIS JOY AT LANDING ROLE OF
The actor will play the tragic fighter – who won his title in 1935, aged just 22, and was dead by 33 – in a new play that wi l l tour al l over Scotland next summer.
Boxing fan Stephen, 35, the longest- serving member of the River City cast, couldn’t say no to the role of the Gorbals-born fighter.
He said: “As soon as I read the script, I was on board 100 per cent. I’m quite a big fan of boxing anyway. I watch it a lot and obviously Benny Lynch is the first Scottish world champion.
“I have always known about him but I read up a bit more on it and it’s an amazing but tragic story – rags to riches to rags again in such a quick time.It was a rapid rise and a rapid fall.
“It has all the ingredients you need for a great play or a great film but it’s a true story, too.
“I think it’s important to have a good play, a good production, about him out there.”
The Benny Lynch Story will also star Stephen’s River City co-star Holly Jack, former High Road star Simon Weir and acting veteran David Hayman.
Written by David Carswell, it will