David Suchet

And, you know, the way often people, you know, Shakespearean actors will just be dismissed as lovies and there's often such deep love and care and connection.

I was listening to David Suchet this morning on Radio 4 and he was actually on stage.

He learned about it in the interval And he was saying what a terrible, terrible shock it was.

And he was talking about him so beautifully.

I don't know.

It was a lovely clip to have as well.

David Suchet this morning was saying that he remembers one particular time when they went for this very long lunch together and spent almost the entire time talking about how bizarre it was that for two Shakespearean actors, they both had these.

parts these lead parts in these tv shows and I thought I'd love to have been in on that conversation and heard it just sat like a fly on the table and listened to that because I bet it went all over the shop

Listen to the Sermon on the Mount on social media.

David, or sorry, who's the best reader? I've recommended him before.

Yeah, David Suchet.

Best, that guy was born to read that book.

Like born to read that book, okay? He's like the Michael Jordan of Bible readers.

And Joe Rogan thinks that this was pretty cool.

So this may not be one of those cases.

I don't know the background, but at the surface, again, I don't know the background, the David Chappelle thing where he walked away from all that money at comedy central to me felt like something like that, where he'll sit there and he'll be like, I had to walk away.

Kenneth Brenner has expressed interest in doing Hercule Poirot's Christmas.

What? So look out for that around Christmas time, whenever that does come out, when we will do David Suchet's Death on the Nile.

Any holiday, any special occasion, we commemorate it with a death on the Nile, because there's a million of the fuckers.

I mean, the thing about this is that death on the Nile was...

He looks like David

Suchet in it.

He looks like Ukrainian kickboxer David Suchet, yeah.

Um...

Suchet.

Yeah, David Suchet, BBC's Poirot, played Cardinal Benelli.

So this play is about the ascension and very soon after death of Pope John Paul I.

And TV's Poirot plays the cardinal that both wants to succeed him as pope, but also takes it upon himself to investigate what exactly happened.

I like the types of plays and musicals and things that he gravitates towards.

I don't know enough about him necessarily.

I don't feel like I've gotten enough of a... sense of his directorial style from that one production, where because it was such a star vehicle for David Suchet, that show, I really felt like he might as well be the actor, director, actor, manager type that the fact that, oh, right, it also has a director.

And I guess that guy is running the Stratford Festival now.

And we watched a lot of Hitchcock, too.

Like two of our favorite Hitchcock movies was one was from 35, The 39 Steps and Sabotage or the Poirot series with David Suchet.

That was... felt like it was part of the vibe of what you were writing.

So I'm kind of curious.

I'm enjoying this back and forth.

I think they've got David Suchet as the bad guy.

He's really good.

Really, really anchors this down.

Yes.

With Suchet.

I think it's a really great choice.

Yeah.