Suchet feels ‘celebration’ as Poirot nears final case

A LEGENDARY detective – and the actor who has played him for almost quarter of a century – will soon take his last bow when Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case is broadcast.

By The Newsroom

Published 11th Nov 2013, 00:01 BST

David Suchet first played the Belgian sleuth on screen in 1989 in The Adventure of the Clapham Cook and has starred in 70 adaptations of the Agatha Christie stories with only one tale, a little known play called Black Coffee, left untold.

The actor compared the feat to climbing a mountain, saying: “I tell you exactly what it feels like.You suddenly realise, although you never knew it, that you’ve reached Everest. And having suddenly stood on the top of Everest, that you never expected to climb, there is a complete strange mixture of, ‘Oh, I now have to say goodbye because I’ve done it’, and then euphoria, for the same reason – ‘I’ve done it.’

“The predominant emotion is celebration, that actually it is time. And what a thing to leave behind.”