Bertie Carvel is the third actor to take on the role of P.D. James crime-solving poet Adam Dalgliesh in a new series of feature-length 1970s mysteries.
Bertie Carvel is the third actor to take on the role of P.D. James crime-solving poet Adam Dalgliesh in a new series of feature-length 1970s mysteries.
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1948: Here I am aged four with my brother Harry, seven, at home in Salford. As he was on the autism spectrum Harry was very clever but unable to see things from others’ point of view. I was more sociable, took part in school plays, and later dropped out of a law course to act. Harry went on to design air-traffic control systems. He’s an atheist but after seeing me play Jesus he said, ‘Makes you think, doesn’t it?’
1974: Crosses keep cropping up in my career. I’m on a giant one here as composer Gustav Mahler with Antonia Ellis as fellow composer Richard Wagner’s wife, in a fantasy sequence from Ken Russell’s film Mahler. Ken was seen as difficult but I adored him. Another scene had Mahler, who was Jewish, imagining he was forced to eat a pig – it was really made of marzipan