David Suchet AKA Poirot, another one of my intense man crushes...

[Mister Obvious]

Sooo attractive...

I have a thing for the detective types...

Makes me filthy wet.

I even have David Suchet’s autograph!!!

*squeals, touches self*

[Mister Obvious]

I think ‘man crush’ actually means men crushing on other men...

But for some reason I felt the need to denote the ‘man’ aspect here.

I do have lady crushes too, so it’s valid to differentiate.

My lady crushes (take Jane Seymour for example) are strictly non-sexual, whereas my man crushes are nothing but pure sex.

[anscochrome]

My man crush is Sam Elliot, the version between late 40's and early 60's. The guy is about the textbook definition of a man's man :)

[Mister Obvious]

Oh yes, he’s very very sexy.

[Mister Obvious]

I've been watching Poirot for the past couple days, and I am so fucking lit for David Suchet right now.

And apparently I'm not the only one who finds him sexy as fuck...

He says this in an interview for the US television show "Mystery!" (aired in the early 1990's) regarding the costume: "One letter [from a fan] in particular stands out--but this is a fun one, it's not a real one. For some strange reason, this person found Poirot sexy. Very often, you're shocked by this. They wanted to see Hercule Poirot with a bare chest. I had a great difficulty in knowing how to reply, because I try to reply to the letters that come. So, I decided to say that if you would like me to send you a picture of Poirot bare chest, I'd have to take off all my padding first, and that is not possible. You see, as Poirot I wear a lot of padding and I may look fat, but I'm not fat. In fact, this is all illusion."

http://www.poirot.us/suchet.php

[Mister Obvious]

I've noticed in watching some of the later season episodes of Poirot lately that Suchet has a blue ring around the bottom of each eye...

Apparently it's called "arcus senilis" (corneal arcus) and it can happen beyond age 50. Looks like it's been present from pretty early on in his time as Poirot though, 1989-2013. He was 43 when the show started.

You can see it here...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...Suchet.jpg

Interesting.

[Mister Obvious]

Poirot is like the European Columbo.

The portrayal of both characters spanned decades, I love that.

[Mister Obvious]

After the show ended, he made audiobooks of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible

https://www.sectual.com/thread-18052.html

Following the time when he bade farewell to his role as Hercule Poirot, Suchet fulfilled a 27-year ambition to make an audio recording of The Bible's New International Version, which was released in April 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suchet

I like the fact that he's super Christian. But of course this means that he probably wouldn't be amused by some of my commentary, lmao.

[Mister Obvious]

I actually think the later episodes of the show were the best, but most fans feel like the opposite is true.

They definitely got a little more risque with later episodes, but nothing over the top.

[Mister Obvious]

My only issue with these Poirot stories is that there are always at least 3 different people in each one of them who deserve to be killed, and the ones who do get killed are rarely even the least likeable ones.

I notice a lot of recurring themes in Agatha Christie's stories. She talks about mirrors a lot. I guess she must have done something right though, she's still the best selling author of all time, right behind Shakespeare. That's impressive.

What I love about the screen adaptation of Poirot is that they were so masterfully brought to life. Suchet changes his voice, his movements, and he was even fitted with padding to make him appear bulkier in certain areas.

I also love Hastings... Hugh Fraser did such an amazing job with the character, I love the way he moves. Honestly, he's pretty hot too. Even though I don't really prefer the early episodes, they are delightful to watch because of him.

I prefer the way Poirot is portrayed in the later seasons, he's much more expressive, even yells sometimes. There's a lot more subtle nuance of interest in some of the female characters, just very slight though... perfectly done.

Heck, I only recently found out that Poirot dies, lol. I had no idea. The last episode was in 2013 and it was a really good one. The choices he made were very interesting. They kept showing him in flashback scenes after he bit the big one cuz they knew the audience would just be fucking done if he didn't get any more screen time on the episode. Sucks it had to end.

I got back into the Poirot kick because I was looking for movies with John Malkovich, and he played Poirot in a 2018 episode. He was actually great in the role. A lot of people didn't like it because apparently it deviated too much from the original story. I have no idea if that's true, but Agatha Christie stories have been put to screen so many times, you gotta change it up a little bit, otherwise WTF is the point??

It's understandable that people wouldn't like Malkovich's Poirot as much as David Suchet, I mean it'd be kinda like some new actor playing Columbo in a remake... which I'm sure will happen at some point. But if it's good, it's good. Kind of a shame that Poirot ever died though, or at least that they filmed the final episode with Suchet in the role. Apparently there are 50+ stories with Poirot, they definitely could have made more.