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"Dominic West has suggested that serial killer Fred West had a &amp;quot;likeable&amp;quot; demeanour which helped him escape detection by the authorities. The Wire star appears as the real-life murderer in upcoming TV drama Appropriate Adult and told The Sunday Times that &amp;quot;very extreme characters are a gift&amp;quot;, but admitted that his wife was &amp;quot;revolted&amp;quot; when he was first approached for the role. He said of Fred West: &amp;quot;Everyone who came into contact with him thought he was a good guy. Salt of the Earth. The police all liked him. He escaped detection for 25 years because he was likeable and pitiable. Rose was not.&amp;quot; The actor added that he identified in some ways with the killer&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;attitudes to sex, sexual fantasies, dark stuff&amp;quot; but added that he had to pull himself back from sympathising when &amp;quot;my conscience said stop&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;This is very, very, very dangerous territory, but necessarily one has something in common,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;You have to find common ground and that common ground is the basic part of you.&amp;quot; He later said of Fred West: &amp;quot;He lied all the time. At first he lied to get off, then to get off with a light sentence, then getting Rose off, then blaming everything on Rose. &amp;quot;Then it was, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll give you one body a year so I get one day out of prison every year. I won&amp;#039;t give you all of them, but if I do one a year, I get a day out of prison each year&amp;#039;. I mean, that&amp;#039;s crazy.&amp;quot; Dominic West has admitted that he found his research for the project &amp;quot;disturbing&amp;quot;, while co-star Emily Watson has promised that the history is &amp;quot;handled very sensitively&amp;quot; in the drama. Fred West&amp;#039;s daughter Anne Marie Davis has criticised ITV for producing the programme.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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