In The Pale Horse he plays antiques dealer Easterbrook – and it’s his first Christie drama. It’s not much of an investment if you’re already a bit wrinkly.” “I’m way too long in the tooth! Certainly for my first Bond. “I never really imagined I was Bond material,” he insists. Wouldn’t he have made a great one? Might he not, still? The Pale Horse is a rare exception.īond, for example. Meeting to discuss The Pale Horse, he laughs: “I had the kind of fame from when I did my first period drama that if I wanted to go to an antiques shop or a tearoom it would be like Iggy Pop had walked in!”īut although he has been a recognisable face for decades now, the lead roles haven’t rolled in. The Pale Horse Overview Rufus Sewell ( The Man In the High Castle, The Marvellous Mrs.
The actor, 52, who became a pin-up in the 90s in Middlemarch, and more recently in Victoria as Lord Melbourne, is impeccably modest but admits he has a fan club. His face all angles, as if chiselled from polished mahogany, Rufus Sewell in person is every bit as dark and brooding as fans would wish. In 1975, Christie received a letter from a woman in Latin America who had thus saved a woman from slow poisoning by her husband and in 1977, a nurse who had been reading The Pale Horse correctly suggested that a baby in her care was suffering from thallium poisoning.
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