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    The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

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    "It was obvious, Hastings"

    Mr. Waverly comes to Hercule Poirot's office to ask for his help on a serious matter: he has been receiving anonymous letters warning him not only that his son, Johnnie, will be kidnapped, but even specifying the exact time! Poirot and Hastings go to Waverly's mansion, and soon Inspector Japp and his men follow them. But will all these precautions be enough to stop this audacious crime?

    Agatha Christie wrote a grabber of a premise here, but one that also kind of leads the writer into a difficult spot: after all, if the child is in the company of several people at the critical time that the letters specify, how can he possibly be kidnapped? Only if one of those people does something that allows the kidnapping to happen, and as soon as you spot that person and his "mistake", you know who's behind it all, at least in part. As Poirot says to Hastings at the end, "it was obvious". Perhaps the main point of interest in this very early Poirot episode is to see how fully the 4 main actors (Suchet, Fraser, Jackson and Moran) have already adjusted to their roles. (**1/2)

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    The Bank Job Interview

     

    Compiled by Jack Foley on IndieLondon February 2008

    DAVID Suchet talks about playing a real life porn king in The Bank Job, the research he did for the character and his recollections of the robbery depicted on film.

     
    Q: Lew Vogel is not the real name of the man you portray in The Bank Job. But he was an evil man?
     
    David Suchet: Yes, he was king of porn in Soho. I think he was an extension of the East End London Jewish Mafia that he would have known in is day, as a younger man. Although by 1971 that was over, he was the last remnant of being called king. That’s why there are these little moments in the film when rather than giving the police money for protection, he throws it at them. He needs them but he doesn’t want to fraternise.
     
     
    Q: How did you research the character and make him so believable?
     
    David Suchet: My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don’t enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions. There are clues in the script… he will say “I think drugs are immoral”’… but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.
     
    In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won’t deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you’re beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.
     
     
    Q: Did you meet anyone from the period?
     
    David Suchet: No. But I knew the period. I was 25 in 1971. I also had the privilege of g
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    • John Suchet

    British news presenter

    John Aleck SuchetOBE (SOO-shay; born 29 March 1944) is an English author, television news journalist and presenter of classical music on Classic FM. His journalistic career began when he worked as a graduate trainee at the Reuters news agency in 1967 and later joined BBC News as a sub-editor for the Nine O'Clock News from 1970 to 1971. Suchet worked at Independent Television News (ITN) as a scriptwriter/sub-editor from 1972 and was a newsreader and reporter until his retirement from ITN in 2004.

    Suchet has two brothers, one of whom is the actor Sir David Suchet.

    Early life

    Suchet was born in London, the son of Joan Patricia (née Jarché; 1916–1992), an actress, and Jack Suchet (1908–2001), who emigrated from South Africa to England in 1932, and trained to be a doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1933. Suchet's father was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, working with Alexander Fleming on the role of penicillin in treating venereal disease. His maternal grandfather, James Jarché, was a famous Fleet Street photographer, notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney Street. Suchet's father was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his mother was English-born and Anglican (she was of Russian Jewish descent on her own father's side, and of English descent on her mother's side).

    Suchet was brought up with his two brothers, David and Peter, in London. He attended Uppingham School in Rutland, and played the trombone and piano. Suchel enrolled at Queen's College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St Andrews, now the University of Dundee), graduating in 1967 with a 2:2 in philosophy and political science. His younger brother, David, is an actor, who portrayed Hercule Poirot in the tel