![]() “He took a piece of paper out of his pocket and it had the people on there he wanted to play Marple. In fact, it was only Agatha Christie’s publisher who told her he’d always liked the idea of her playing the role. The actress knows, because, she admits, she’s checked. Yet Julia’s name wasn’t on the lips of ardent fans on internet sites discussing their choices for possible candidates. ![]() It’s very hard to do it all.”Īfter Geraldine McEwan decided to step down as the spinster sleuth two years ago, the search for a replacement was on. all the time making everyone think she’s actually one step behind them, you know, appearing to be just an ordinary old woman. “I’d like to think what we’ve filmed gets a lot better as we go on,” she adds. Hopefully it won’t take too many episodes to get to know me and come along my path. “It’ll be hard on the viewer to accept another physical presence in the role. And any actor will tell you, you have to play certain facets of yourself in any character too. “I can’t go in the same direction as Geraldine, I’m not going to do an imitation of her. She picked up the character again 10 years later and she was a little different – tweedier, sturdier, kinder. At first, she was very much as Geraldine was playing her frail, Victorian, rather fussy and quirky. “We’re all different in our own ways, and it’s important to note Agatha Christie wrote her in two ways, too. “I think Joan Hickson is considered the definitive Marple now,” she says, referring to the late actress who portrayed the amateur detective in the BBC adaptations of the ’80s and ’90s. “Geraldine McEwan made a success of the part before me, and Marple is such an iconic role, it’s very difficult. “Taking over the role has been bloody awful,” she says, only half-joking. On holiday in New Zealand at the time, Julia has since had time to catch up on the novels of Agatha Christie, having not read anything by the acclaimed crime author before shooting began on A Pocket Full Of Rye, which can be seen on ITV1, tonight. “But there was no time for that, so I just had to read the script and go with my instincts.” “Normally you like to research, work out what you’re going to do with the part and read up,” she says. She says it’s a phrase that took a bit of getting used to, but, as she found out she had the role just 10 days before filming began, all adjustments had to be made very quickly.
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