When Louis Met... (2000)

Original title

When Louis Met... Jimmy

Directed by

Will Yapp

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Rated

12

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Louis Theroux spends time with a different British celebrity in each episode following them in their daily routines and interviewing them about their lives. The focus is on the person behind the public image as they go about ordinary activities.

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What happens

When Louis Met... is a series of documentary films by Louis Theroux. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Two from 2000 to 2002. In the series, Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so. Theroux's episode about Jimmy Savile (When Louis Met Jimmy) was voted one of the top 50 documentaries of all time in a survey by Channel 4. In another episode (When Louis Met the Hamiltons), the Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine, were arrested during the course of filming following allegations of indecent assault; these were subsequently found to be false. The show did not return for a third series, and Theroux said that he had difficulty in finding people to appear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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