In Conversation with David Suchet, Nov 3 2017 [x]

Even Christie’s daughter, Rosalind Hicks, invited him to dinner to explain how much her mother, who died in 1976, would have loved his portrayal of her famous creation. It was “the most moving thing said to me during filming of the show. I was always scared stiff, because it was well known Agatha Christie was never happy with any of the cinematic portrayals of her characters. But Rosalind had my wife and I over to the family house, and it made me absolutely well up when she said, ’My mother would have been absolutely delighted with what you’ve done.’ It meant so much because that was my whole reason for doing this role.” - NY Times, July 18 2014

Suchet met Agatha Christie’s only daughter, Rosalind Hicks, in 1988 before they started to film the first episode. After the success of the third series he received a letter from her which meant the most to the actor, because Dame Agatha’s daughter started it by saying: ’Dear Poirot’ and she also praised the actor’s appearance as the Belgian detective. - Sunday Express, Nov 12 2013

4 Poirot actors → Albert Finney - Peter Ustinov - David Suchet - Kenneth Branagh

Belgian, not French!

Actor David Suchet was taught how to eat a mango in ‘polite company’ by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On May 2 1990 Suchet was at a private lunch at Buckingham Palace, per the Queen’s invitation. It was his 44th Birthday. He discovered the Queen likes to invite people from all walks of life whom she finds interesting.

During lunch, Suchet was served a mango and suffering from an acute attack of nerves, he turned to Prince Philip, confessing he didn’t have the slightest idea how to deal with the fruit. That provoked an enourmous laugh from Prince Philip, who replied immediately, ‘Well, let me show you,’ and demonstrated what exactly one should do. Suchet was relieved he wasn’t left floundering and was now able to eat the fruit in front of him.

Later that day he told the story to Brian Eastman, the producer of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and asked him if they could include it in the episode they were soon to film, 3x09: The Theft of the Royal Ruby.

“We sent a copy of the finished film to Buckingham Palace on DVD, and I’m thrilled to say that it became the late Queen Mother’s favourite film. Indeed, whenever I’ve met the Duke of Edinburgh since that lunch, he always calls me ‘the mango man’.” - David Suchet, Poirot and Me

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Hercule Poirot (David Suchet)