Final curtain and ITV's Poirot Photograph: Ian West/PA
Whether or not you know him by name, surely everyone recognizes David Suchet as Agatha Christie's infamous Belgian, Hercules Poirot. His Belgian accent is impeccable and it's because David fully prepares for and immerses himself in his roles, much like Daniel Day-Lewis is known to do. Some people call this "method acting," when actors go to such lengths for their roles to remain in character off-set, but it's actually not. Method acting, in a nutshell, is borrowing similar emotional situations from your past to connect deeply with your character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting.
Suchet trained at England's oldest school of dramatic arts, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, or "LAMDA." In my experience, I have noted in films that classically trained actors rarely disappoint. LAMDA's graduates, for example, can move between modern film and Shakespeare with ease. It is this training, I'm sure, that David draws on, in one of his more recent television projects called, "In the Footsteps of St. Paul," when he virtually channels Paul, delivering a powerful verse in Paul's voice. It makes my hair stand on end to hear this extraordinary actor deliver lines in the full potency of his craft. Watch this:
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