![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it was something about this production – Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun– that caused me to see Ustinov’s Poirot in a different and better light. Ustinov is able to give Hercule a certain (dare I say it!) normalcy of sorts, and also plays Hercule with a twinkle in his eye. I guess I was especially surprised because I remembered having seen Ustinov’s Poirot in other movies (he played Poirot a total of six times between 19) and, although I remember enjoying the movies, I didn’t remember his Poirot as completely hitting the mark. However, I recently watched the 1982 version of Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun in which Peter Ustinov played Poirot, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the acting and the movie – I was quite pleasantly surprised. I said then that all of the actors in those shows portraying Christie’s characters “‘ became’ the characters they portrayed….” I still believe that Suchet’s portrayal of the little Belgian detective (who was Agatha Christie’s most popular detective) is definitive, and I might say the “last word.” A while back I wrote about the series of shows starring David Suchet as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. ![]()
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