Archie

Jason Isaacs, Jeff Pope and Laura Aikman on Archie and Cary Grant, the man who "didn’t exist"

Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant looks onward with a neutral expression in front of a grand red staircase, which is out of focus

Cary Grant was the ultimate Hollywood star, the suavest man on the silver screen during cinema’s golden age.

Whatever the role – from the unscrupulous newspaper editor of His Girl Friday to ordinary-man-on-the-run in North by Northwest – he was always Grant: charming, urbane, the epitome of cool.

Surely, then, only the vainest of actors would sign up to play him in Archie, ITV’s new four-part drama about Grant, written by Jeff Pope?