September 2011
“And I discovered all sorts of things that I could do if I had had the opportunity to do it. So I said ‘yes!’, with enormous temerity, and a certain amount of fear, and an element of excitement. We approached the scripts. I said, ‘But you’ve asked me to do Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. These aren’t Sherlock Holmes - Doyle’s stories.’ I mean, the adapters had gone so far away. And the script editor said, ‘Jeremy, you’re here to act. Just get on with it’. And I tipped the table over and my Dover sole landed in his lap. And that was the beginning of the tousle. I used to take the whole canon with me to…the beginning of each film, and fight for Doyle.”
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Jeremy Brett (on reading for Sherlock Holmes)
This is one of my favorite quotes, because it speaks so much to what i love in an actor. Even when given such an opportunity, this fantastic man told the producers that either they did it ACD’s way, or no way.
(via hugyourfuckingsorcerer)
Wow, just wow! Love Jeremy Brett even more if that is possible.
