So John’s attitudes towards Mary haven’t regressed? I don’t want to give too much away, but again, the surface is where it is but we also will always go underneath that.
So that might change it slightly, but also, without being too stupid about it, it also might not. Then, you were more likely, I guess, to be a wife and a homemaker. I guess in 1895, that would be even rarer for a gentlewoman and essentially the wife of a doctor, as opposed to now when you can be any number of five thousand things. I’m hoping that our version last year surprised some people that she ended up being an international assassin. Presumably the Victorian era changes John’s relationship with Mary?Īgain, I suppose it changes his and the world’s expectation of a, what a woman should be doing generally and b, specifically what that woman would be doing. So that might change it slightly though I still have my function and he still definitely has his, which is recognisable to Steven and Mark’s version. I mean, there’s still the bite and obviously the Victorian era wasn’t five thousand years ago, people are still doing the same things to each other they’re doing now, but they’re finding slightly more polite ways of doing it, as befits gentlemen. So he’s still that, he’s still a soldier, still a military man, he’s still capable, but I guess sometimes with the formality, that might change it slightly. He is a very able man, and he would be the main guy in the room if it wasn’t for his friend.
I love Nigel Bruce-that was one of the first Holmes adaptations I watched and I absolutely love their relationship and both those characters-but was much more able I suppose, like in the books. I think that one of the things people who really loved Conan Doyle liked about ours was that it wasn’t very Nigel Bruce-y. I think that went out the window with the first series, because then it just became its own animal.ĭoes the period change the dynamic between your two characters? No-one asks the question anymore about modern Sherlock, because everybody’s used to it?
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