BORIS L AUGHED & L AUGHED UNTIL THE TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE
BORIS Johnson reportedly “laughed like a f** king drain” when he heard that shamed Hollywood icon Kevin Spacey has been pencilled in to play Matt Hancock in a new COVID blockbuster.
But the beleaguered health secretary was less delighted by the controversial casting and was “close to tears of rage” when aides brought him the news.
Double Oscar- winner Spacey’s glittering career collapsed in 2017 when a series of men accused him of making unwanted sexual advances.
Netflix cut ties with Spacey, shelving his film Gore and removing him from the last season of House of Cards. His role as J.
Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s film All the Money in the World was reshot with the late Christopher Plummer in his place.
In recent months, though, he’s made something of a comeback and is currently in Turin, Italy, where he is filming L’uomo che disegnò Dio ( The Man who drew God), a film about a man wrongly accused of a sex crime.
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Now it’s thought he could return to the mainstream as Hancock in an adaptation of the drama that unfolded as the Chinese death plague swept around the world catching governments with their trousers down.
A source close to the as yet unnamed production said: “In House of Cards, Spacey played a slightly sinister politician who was convinced he was the victim of some vast conspiracy when in fact he was the author of most of his misfortune.
“That’s the vibe we want in the Matt Hancock character. Kevin also has the same receding hairline and a similar weak, cruel mouth to Hancock.
“Obviously, Kevin is a lot older than Mr Hancock but it’s amazing what you can do with make- up these days.”
A Downing Street source said: “It’s no secret that the PM has been setting Matt up as the fall guy for the COVID debacle. No wonder Matt always looks so peevish.
“When Boris heard about the plan to cast Kevin Spacey he laughed and laughed like a f** king drain. There were tears running down his face.
“When he recovered he said ‘ Just wait until I tell Carrie! Oh, that’s priceless’. I’ve not heard him laugh like that since MI5 brought him a recording of Nicola Sturgeon on the toilet.
“Oh, hold on. Nobody is supposed to know about that. Forget that bit…”