The failed London mayoral candidate Laurence Fox is to play Hunter Biden, the son of the current US president, in a new film, My Son Hunter.
Fox, who rose to fame as an actor in the TV series Lewis, posted a video on his Twitter account declaring that he had been “temporarily uncancelled and asked to don [his] acting shoes again”.
“The Hunter story fascinates me so much,” Fox continued, “especially the vigour with which the mainstream media continue to try and suppress it.”
He added that he “couldn’t resist the offer to enter [Biden’s] world and tell his truth. So on one level we are both being uncancelled: Hunter’s story and Hunter’s truth can finally be told.”
The film will be directed by Robert Davi, an actor turned singer turned radio host, who described Fox as “not just a great actor, but a brilliant mind”.
The script is the debut fiction attempt from married documentarians Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. Fox called the script “brilliant, surreal and funny, basically because it’s true” and expressed his pleasure that “film-makers are fighting back against the woke lecture that is modern drama”.
Hunter Biden is a lawyer and painter. He is the younger son of President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, who died in a car crash when Hunter was two years old. Hunter and his elder brother, Beau, survived, with severe injuries; their sister was killed. Beau died in 2015, aged 46.
Earlier this year, Hunter Biden published a memoir, Beautiful Things, detailing his struggles with addiction. In 2020, Hunter and Joe Biden were accused by Donald Trump and his associates of financial wrongdoings. Both deny the allegations.
In September 2020, Fox, a self-styled “anti-woke” campaigner, launched the Reclaim Party to fight what he described as “culture wars”. Two months later he was dropped by his agent. In May 2021, he secured less than 2% of the votes in the London mayoral election, losing his £10,000 deposit.