Rillington Place star Nico Mirallegro is trying to learn something every day

Nico Mirallegro plays the wrongfully executed Timothy Evans in new BBC One drama Rillington Place. The young actor tells Jeananne Craig about his growing sense of social justice, and why he was keen to get this role right

NICO Mirallegro is all set to be interviewed about his new TV drama, but his head seems a little elsewhere.

The actor has just come out of a cinema screening of Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, and the film’s hard-hitting social message is playing on his mind. “It’s very, very emotional. It gets you angry. It’s a good solid message on the failed society. I can’t stop thinking about it,” he says, in his softly-spoken Mancunian accent.