In The Letter For The King, currently available on Netflix, Omid is a black-hearted baddie in a story set in the Middle Ages.“My character’s aim is to try to get hold of a cylinder containing a letter of tremendous power which a young boy is attempting to deliver to the king,” he explains.And who is his inspiration for this villain? “He’s posh and rotund but he’s also funny.
I’ve based him on Boris Johnson, my unspoken mantra being ‘I always get what I want’.“Looked at another way, he’s like Lord Sugar gone bad, wearing silly clothes on horseback,” he says with a chuckle.Then there’s his turn as Dr Martin Lanselius, the Consul of the Witches of the North, in the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials which returned to BBC One.
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