The actor speaks with Yahoo UK about his experience filming Murder on the Orient Express with David Suchet, and why he'd love to reunite with his former Royal Shakespeare Company cast mate Kenneth Branagh.
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00:00I'd love to talk about Poirot as well, because you got to be in arguably David Suchet's best
00:05episode as Poirot, Murder on Orange Express, which is one of my favourites as well of his.
00:09I wonder what stood out to you most about that special and working with him on that?
00:13Well, A, his performance. I mean, you know, he's legendary for nailing that dialogue as,
00:19you know, in so much of the structure of those stories is the denouement where he,
00:25you know, reveals how he knows who done it. And he was, it was a masterclass in technique and
00:33quite apart from simple line learning, you know, these great stretches of dialogue,
00:37monologue that he had. And again, you know, leading from the front, his courtesy to all
00:43the characters, all the actors on set was fantastic. And it was just a wonderful ensemble
00:48of people. You know, we had, you know, Jessica Shastain, Dave Morrissey, Sam West, Toby Jones,
00:54a wonderful array of British talent and superbly directed by Philip Martin, I thought.
01:01So I think it stands up there alongside any of the big screen Poirots that there have been.
01:07Speaking of the big screen Poirots, I wanted to ask, would you ever be interested in working
01:11with your old friend Kenneth Branagh? Oh my goodness. I mean, I'd walk over
01:14hot coals to work with Ken, yeah, yeah, yeah.