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HERCULE POIROT LGBT ICON
Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver
Kenneth Branagh and Tina Fey | A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) David Suchet and Zoë Wanamaker | AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 10x02 "Cards on the Table" (2006)
"Yes, I shall be at home all this evening. Does that mean that I may have the pleasure of a visit from you?" "It's very nice of you to put it that way," said Mrs. Oliver. "I don't know that it will be such a pleasure." "It is always a pleasure to see you, chère Madame." - Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember
Two Poirots converse while three other Poirots tend to their unique agricultural endeavors.
A silly little AU concept returns.
With @john-deco's permission, I'm adding a little domestic scene to the "Vegetable Marrows AU": Suchet's Poirot and Branagh's Poirot are tending to the garden and everything is going well, until THERE IS A SLUG, oh no! Suchet's Poirot has some advice on keeping pests away from their prized vegetables:
Different Poirots retiring together and trying out new hobbies (with varying levels of success) gives me warm, cozy feelings. Thank You, @john-deco, for the perfect fanart! <3
(Advice is from this How to Control Slugs and Snails article. :))
Happy Birthday, David Suchet! (b. May 2 1946)
“Poirot is a brilliant, yet profoundly complicated character and I’ve always loved playing him. He’s considerate, with a love of elegance and precision, but he is also so maddeningly frustrating to play as he’s so vain and pedantic. What endears me to him the most is his endless love of people. And for all his faults he is one of the greatest listeners in literature. I’ve been so fortunate to play him.” - David Suchet, Independent interview, November 14 2011
me and the besties at a new gay bar
David Suchet on his signature Hercule Poirot walk Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989 - 2013)
- Gavin Esler In Conversation with David Suchet, December 7 2017
[ID 1-2: two gifs of David Suchet, sitting on a sofa in a talk show. Someone from the audience says: "One of the wonderful things about your Poirot is the way he walks." David Suchet laughs and says "yes". The fan continues: "I wonder how long that took to work out." David Suchet answers, still laughing: "A very long time. Do you all know the story? Oh, gosh, you're gonna be horrified when I tell you. It's absolutely true. We did some takes with me as a Poirot. Films tests before we actually started shooting. And I watched myself as Poirot and I sort of was ok about it,"
ID 3: a gif of David Suchet as "Agatha Christie's Poirot", wearing a light jacket, vest and hat, and dark trousers, walking through a roofed street. David Suchet continues talking "but I thought 'I'm moving like David Suchet, I'm not moving... How did Poirot move, move, move?' Suddenly, I remembered there was a quote in one of the books. And I actually found it."
ID 4-5: David Suchet as Poirot, walking through a garden, between hedges, and in the second gif crossing a street.
ID 6: another gif of Poirot walking over grass. David Suchet continues: "The quote went something like this: 'Poirot crossed the lawn in his usual rapid, mincing gait, with his feet tightly and painfully enclosed within his patent leather boots.'"
ID 7: a gif of Poirot leaving a dark corridor, stepping into a lit one. David Suchet continues: "I spent a month on Bryher filming. I was on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly, trying to get this mincing walk. In the end I did a trick - and this is gonna horrify you but it's absolutely true - and it's in my book ["Poirot and me"], so I can say it. "
ID 8-12: five gifs, again showing David Suchet, now standing next to the sofa as he continues: "When Lord Oliver was playing Lord Foppington he held between the cheeks of his buttocks a penny. So when he walked and turned corners, he couldn't just turn like this, because the penny would drop out, right? (he walks normally) So he had to go like this. (he walks with his hips swaying, the audience laughs) So when I did the same, I couldn't walk like this because the penny would drop out. (he giggles and the audience laughs) So in the end, I had to learn to squeeze my [buttocks] very tight cause if you do that - you could do this going home, anybody could do this, you may get locked up, but you could do this... So in the end, I could walk... (does his signature mincing Poirot walk) like that. That was it. (applause). /end ID].
“Eh bien, Hastings. We have in this room, now, six points of interest. Shall I catalogue them, or will you?”
Poirot 3.01: The Mysterious Affair At Styles
“No, I did it all myself. What I did was, I had my file on one side of me and a pile of stories on the other side and day after day, week after week, I plowed through most of Agatha Christie’s novels about Hercule Poirot and wrote down characteristics until I had a file full of documentation of the character. And then it was my business not only to know what he was like, but to gradually become him. I had to become him before we started shooting. I worked very hard on finding the right voice. I was desperate that he should sound French, although he is Belgian, because everybody believes that he is French. I wanted to move my voice from my own-which is rather bell-like and mellow and totally unlike Poirot. I wanted to raise that voice up into his head because that’s where he works from. Everything comes from there. My voice is very much in my chest and in my emotional area, but his is up in his head. He’s a brain, so that voice had to be raised up and perfected. And then I had to learn how to think like him and how to see the world through his eyes. I had to make his mannerisms and eccentricities not as though they had been put on to be laughed at, but as if they had come absolutely from within that person. I had to make it look real for the audience, yet in a way so that they could find themselves smiling at this strange little man. His mannerisms and eccentricities have to be real and not jokey, so he must never be aware of them or comment on them-even things like putting a handkerchief down on the floor before he kneels. They mustn’t be commented on. This is just what he does.”
— David Suchet on preparing to be Poirot (x)
Sir David Suchet shares an amusing fan encounter story from the set of Agatha Christie’s Poirot in Hastings, East Sussex - BFI Q&A, November 12 2013
“‘Oh!’ she said, apparently satisfied, and set off on her away again, only to stop once again moments later. ‘Thank you for choosing Hastings,’ she said, with a gentle wave, and she set off up the street away from me. Even as I remember that day now, it brings a tear to my eye. It was so touching, and seemed to reflect exactly how much ordinary people really seemed to care about the little Belgian, even if he was entirely the product of Dame Agatha’s imagination.” - David Suchet, Poirot and Me
oh, my heart.
Poirot Series 02 Episode 09 ‘The Adventure of the Western Star’
Hastings plays Sherlock Holmes and Poirot meets his star
Poirot is thrilled to receive an invitation from renowned Belgian actress Marie Marvelle. She has been receiving anonymous notes about the Western Star, a valuable diamond purchased by her husband at a cut-rate price several years before. The notes speak to the mystical nature of the diamonds and that they should be returned to their rightful owners. The next day, Lady Yardly claims to have received similar notes about her own fabulous diamond, the Eastern Star. When Poirot and Hastings visit Lord and Lady Yardly the diamond is stolen in a daring robbery. Needless to say, none of this sits well with Poirot who finds he has a very tight knot to untie.— garykmcd
Quotes:
Captain Hastings: You know, you say you have the particular sensitivity to women and all that,
Poirot. It seems to me that all you did for Mrs. Marvelle is to lose her her husband.
Dorney Court, Nr. Windsor, Berkshire, became ‘Yardley Chase’
Inspector Japp arrests Henrik van Braks in Widegate St. London, E1
Courtesy: IMDb, She Wolf, Perschel Press
I made some Agatha Christie’s Poirot posters for absolutely no reason.
But I can’t decide on a color palette.
Which one do you guys think is the best? Also I’m open to other color suggestions, so feel free to tell me some.
Thanks!
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser and Philip Jackson in Agatha Christie’s Poirot Season 1 Episode 3: “The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly” (1989)