Jacobi in Roald Dahl thriller
In “Skin,” the episode of Roald Dahl’s “Tales of The Unexpected screening Friday night on Network One, Derek Jacobi, one of Britain’s most succ es sfu 1 Shakespearean actors, plays Drioli, a penniless down-and-out with a fortune on his back. Years before, a picture was tattooed on him by famous painter, Soutine, when the artist was young and unknown. An, old, hungry, and destitute Drioli is suddenly made an offer which will make him wealthy. But he faces a horrible dilemma. “Skin” also stars Donald Pickering and Lucy Gutteridge.. Derek Jacobi is well • known to New Zealand ■ his portrayal ’of the' : (Roman emperor, Claudius, in the 8.8. C. dramatisation of Robert Graves’- novel, “I, Claudius.”
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