It was absolutely bitter! We had a green room in what I suppose you’d call a crypt or a mausoleum in the graveyard, though that was equally as cold and very, very dour. I could hardly hold the cup of tea they gave me for shaking. “I was absolutely shivering with cold – in between takes I was wrapped in two of those down puffer coats with a hot water bottle. My black coat and hat were turning white from the snow and they kept having to step in and brush the snow off,” Moran recalls. One of Inspector Japp, Hastings and Miss Lemon’s last appearances together is the cemetery scene of Poirot’s supposed funeral in the new penultimate episode The Big Four, fittingly filmed in a graveyard “in the depths of winter. To Moran’s chagrin, only Hugh Fraser’s Captain Hastings appears in the series closer Curtain, Poirot’s last case. And of course it was seven years before they could get the rights again to put the matter right, as it were!” Acorn TV And they did try it, very briefly, because the new producers sold the rights to Murder on the Orient Express at NBC and they did a modern version with Alfred Molina as Poirot, with guns and laptops and mobile phones. “I think it would be a positioned chalice for anyone to do it. Article contentĪt the time Moran says she had no idea the series would last but now she cannot imagine anyone else but David Suchet in the role of Poirot – in our lifetime, perhaps ever. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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