EXCLUSIVE: Having played Hercule Poirot on TV for more than a quarter of a century, David Suchet has become something of an expert on Agatha Christie, the world-famous author who created the iconic Belgian detective and penned scores of bestselling novels.
Sleuths among the Deadline readership may know already he’s headed to the Croisette this year to promote his doc series Travels with Agatha with Sir David Suchet.
Retracing a journey Christie embarked upon at the start of her literary career, he discovered a new side to the prolific writer — a bubbly, effervescent character who socialized well into the wee hours of the night and, at the beach, was even known to catch a wave. “I’ve got to know my author as a more three-dimensional human being and that’s an unexpected gift,” Suchet says of his modern-day voyage, which took in Australia, Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand and South Africa. “I was learning about the character of a young lady who loved surfing, who loved socializing, who actually, when her early stories were published, would willingly give press interviews.
She was vivacious. On board the ship, she openly writes in her diary that she was kept up into the early hours with one of the officers on board.
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