The Wire actor Dominic West is cast in SAS TV show as a lothario again – months after his romantic trip with Lily James
DOMINIC West will dig deep to play another role as a deceptive womaniser - this time one who dabbled in cross-dressing.
The married actor, who was last year caught on a romantic trip with actress Lily James, has been cast as lothario Dudley Wrangel Clarke in new BBC1 drama, SAS: Rogue Heroes.
The show will look at the creation of the elite Special Air Service with help from the eccentric Brigadier, who was always surrounded by beautiful women known as “Dudley’s Duchess’s.”
A TV insider said: “Viewers would be forgiven for thinking Dominic was getting typecast in roles on the back of what’s happening in his private life.
“Signing up for Rogue Heroes comes after he was asked to play love cheat Prince Charles in Netflix blockbuster The Crown.”
The new six-part drama, which has just started filming, comes from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and is adapted from Ben Macintyre’s best selling book of the same name.
It will also star movie star Jack O’Connell, 30, Alfie Allen, 34, and Sex Education star Connor Swindells, 24, in the lead role of SAS-founder Lieutenant David Stirling.
But spying expert and lifelong bachelor Dudley - described as “the greatest British deceiver of World War Two” - is the most outstanding character thanks to his love of women and their clothes.
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His cross-dressing was uncovered when he was once arrested in the street in a dress and high heels.
They fit him so well that police refused to believe his claim they belonged to a friend and he was wearing them as a prank.
But SAS: Rogue Heroes will show how ingenuity was essential in forming a formidable team of hardmen that led to the formation of the British Army’s special forces unit.