The British actor-comedian wrote and starred in the drama following the hunt for King Richard III’s remains in 2012. But a University of Leicester employee named Richard Taylor later sued Coogan — as well as his production outfit Baby Cow and Pathé Productions — over what he called a defamatory, “misogynistic” and “weasel-like” portrayal. Taylor, then the deputy registrar of the University of Leicester, was played in the film by English actor Lee Ingleby.
In June, a U.K. judge ruled that the film portrayed the claimant having “knowingly misrepresented facts to the media and the public” about the discovery, and as being “smug, unduly dismissive and patronizing,” which could be defamatory. The case was set to go to trial.
But on Monday, it was announced Taylor was successful…
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