Subscribe to our Daily Dispatch (above) and you’ll always know what our Top Secret coupon code of the day is. Whenever a wine drinks above its price-class, we issue a special QPR (Quality to Price Ratio) Alert. :: Murder In Provence airs on ITV on July 17 and is available to stream now on BritBox.If you are a fan of Sauvignon Blanc then please pay particular attention to today’s value-priced selection. I can just about order a meal in a restaurant, but I'm useless at languages, unfortunately. I think the rule was that we tried to sort of do a slight kind of French pronunciation of names, but do it as lightly as possible, really. But we did try to find a French quality to them… The approach to the language was that everyone in it is French, and we're in France. We were never going to do French accents for these characters, that wouldn't have worked at all, it would have become annoying. And enjoyable, hugely enjoyable.ĬAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DECISION BEHIND YOUR CHARACTER SPEAKING ENGLISH?
We make each other laugh like the characters do. We did a play called The Moderate Soprano a few years ago in the West End – and a few years before that, at the Hampstead Theatre, we got on terribly well, we had a great ease around each other. I was very, very keen on Nancy playing that role. WERE YOU EXCITED TO REUNITE WITH NANCY CARROLL?
Well, of course, the last thing you should do as an actor is to actually eat anything while filming, because you're stuffed a few takes in – and the wine is some sort of diluted prune juice! But I have quite a lot of food preparation to do during scenes you'll see me shucking the odd oyster and chopping vegetables, things like that.Īlas, I couldn't actually cook as Antoine because the kitchen on set in his house just wasn't practical and I might have burned something down. DID THAT MAKE SCENES ALL THE MORE ENJOYABLE? Becoming a sort of servant of the state, the public good, I think, is of great value to him.ĪNTOINE IS A CONNOISSEUR OF WINE, FOOD AND ART. But he has, I think, a very difficult relationship to both the wealth and his mother, and sort of rejects that. I think he was very proud to become a judge, because he comes from a very wealthy family. It's a bit like a detective, in which you kind of gather all the information and sort of present the case. It's a great passion for him… His job is being an investigating judge, which is very important in the French system of justice. He's a man who is very serious about his job and he's very proud of being an investigating judge in the French system. I do have a very silly side to my sense of humour too, but you probably won't see that in this character.ĬAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER, ANTOINE VERLAQUE? Shelagh and I tend to be a good match because of the dry humour in her scripts, which I enjoy. That really appealed to me – and also, of course, the idea of going to Provence. She said she wanted to create something that was witty and amusing, as well as dealing with serious crimes. She told me all about her plans for the show early on. SO YOU WERE BROUGHT ON TO THE PROJECT AT AN EARLY STAGE? And it was written by one of my oldest friends, Sheila Stevenson. It's a very different kind of character to Endeavour – even though we're still in murder mystery-land, and a different location. THE appeal for me, always, is doing something different to the thing I've just done.
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