![]() In fact, he admits there were “several times” he thought he would never get there. When he signed up to play Poirot in 1988, he never imagined he’d reach this point. I’ve lived with this man for 25 years and to say goodbye to a dear, dear friend, who’s been part of my life for a quarter of a century.” ![]() “It was extraordinary preparing for the end,” he admits. Suchet, who usually has to be padded out to play the gourmand with a weakness for chocolate, had to lose two stone this time round. Poirot is now very old and very ill, residing in a remote and gloomy country house, but still surrounded by the usual extravagant eccentrics and mysterious strangers he always seems to attract, and his ‘little grey cells’ are still as sharp as ever. Set during the Second World War, the story has a very different mood and appearance to the glamorous art deco extravagance of classics like Death On The Nile and Murder On The Orient Express. ![]() Suchet will appear as the quirky crime cracker for the last time in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case. “The predominant emotion is celebration, that actually it is time. ![]()
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