How Danny Boyle brought the Sex Pistols to life

How Danny Boyle brought the Sex Pistols to life

When Trainspotting director Danny Boyle set out to make a mini-series about punk icons the Sex Pistols, he had one condition: The actors had to play the songs for real.

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There'd be no lip-syncing and no miming. Every riff and every syllable would be captured live on stage, in front of an audience, chaotic and unvarnished. Just like the originals.

But turning a cast of predominantly unknown and first-time actors into a proper band doesn't happen overnight. Boyle demanded, and received, a three-month rehearsal period - an almost unheard of length of time for a TV show.

"It was a bit like secondary school," says Anson Boon, who plays Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten.

"In the morning, we'd all have individual tuition for music, so I'd be down the corridor screaming my head off and drowning out everyone else's music lessons. After break time, we'd come together as a band and we'd play for a few hours. And then after lunch, we would do scene practice with Danny."

"Everything was forged in that rehearsal time," says Louis Partridge, who portrays Sid Vicious. "It was wicked."

Music rehearsals were overseen by Karl Hyde and Rick Smith of the dance band Underworld. But even though punk was defined by its untutored, anyone-can-play aesthetic, the young cast weren't cut any slack.