![]() Set during the Second World War, the story had a very different mood and appearance to the glamorous art deco extravagance of classics such as Death On The Nile and Murder On The Orient Express. Suchet recently revealed he achieved Poirot’s waddle by clenching a penny between his buttocks.īut his swansong saw him hunched in a wheelchair, having to be carried up and downstairs.Īnd the actor, who usually has to be padded out to play the gourmand with a weakness for chocolate, had to lose two-stone to achieve his thin and frail appearance in Curtain. Old and ill, he was not the dapper and confident little fellow who struts about with his cane and wearing his gleaming patent leather shoes. Suchet has now performed every one of the stories Agatha Christie wrote about the quirky supersleuth.īut it was a very different Hercule Poirot that viewers bid adieu to tonight. ![]() The final curtain has fallen on Poirot’s last case and fans must begin to mourn for their favourite Belgian detective - after he killed HIMSELF in the last ever episodeĭavid Suchet, 67, making his final appearance as Poirot after 25 years in the ITV series, shocked viewers as he turned murderer, taking the life of a psychopath in order to protect others before writing an apparent suicide note and being found dead in bed. ![]()
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