Russell T. Davies was pressured to add this “unbelievably crass” scene to ‘It’s a Sin…’
It’s a Sin creator Russell T. Davies has revealed the one scene he refused to write.The Channel 4/HBO drama revisits the AIDS crisis in 1980s London, following a group of young gay friends as the disease begins to claim lives around them, and eventually, their own. Davies now tells The Hollywood Reporter that when he pitched the show, one network didn’t like the idea of treating AIDS as a creeping menace.“I was told at one channel,” Davies explained, “‘What if its start is on an AIDS ward in say, 1990 or 1992, with the machines and people dying, and then went, ’10 years earlier…” I thought that was unbelievably crass and literally refused to do it.”Related: Elton John confronted Russell T. Davies over ‘It’s a Sin.’ Now, Davies tell us what
