Accused
Bean plays English teacher Simon and his flamboyant alter ego Tracie in the Tracie’s Story episode of the Jimmy McGovern television drama Accused. Tracie becomes involved with a married man in an affair that ends in a crime of passion, with the first episode of the second season of the series attracting over six million viewers. On playing a transvestite:
I prepared by walking round in high heels in the kitchen at home and one night I went out in the full gear and arm-in-arm with my middle daughter. I wanted to find out what it felt like, whether I’d be able to pull it off and have the bottle to function in that situation