And I have a huge amount of padding under here and around my shoulders to make me See, the high collars -so that sits and makes me fatter. In an interview for PBS' Mystery! viewers in the US, David Suchet says this about the "fatsuit": "You see, as Poirot I wear a lot of padding and I may look fat, but I'm not fat. Riley is called an "amphora", after the Greek jar with two handles, not a Tussie Mussie. On a New Zealand online store, the pin by Mr. He wasĬommissioned to make the pin for the show. Riley has served as a jeweler for many stage and TV productions. Now, to tie this to the Poirot television series: the pin you see on the show was created by a New Zealander named Gavan Riley. There are shops that also call Tussie Mussies "Victorian Vase pins." It is clear that a Tussie Mussie is the pin and the nosegay, but people also refer to the pin itself as a Tussie Mussie. The nosegay consisted of herbs such as thyme, rue, and rosemary. The nosegays were believed to rid of unpleasant odors and even ward off the plague. A Tussie Mussie contains a nosegay of flowers and herbsĭating back to medieval times in Europe. The word "tussie" also refers to a knot of flowers "mussie" is the moss that keeps flowers fresh. The pin is called a "Tussie Mussie" (which means "sweet posey"). He's a brain, so that voice had to be raised up and perfected." Flower Lapel Pin Much in my chest and in my emotional area, but his is up in his head. I wanted to raise that voice up into his head because that's where he works from. He also says this about Poirot's voice: "I worked very hard on finding the right voice. Very, very specific, and it also had to be an accent that could be easily understood because there's no point in speaking a brilliant accent if nobody can understand what you're saying." It's a mix and match really, a mixture of French-speaking Belgian and country French. I used a proper Belgian accent, which is slightly guttural and has a bit of Dutch in it, people would know I wasn't French. He explains thus: "I was desperate that he should sound French, although he is Belgian, because everybody believes that he is French. Suchet worked hard on Poirot's accent, and even hired a tutor to master it. Moustache and Accentĭavid Suchet and make-up men reportedly tried 40 pairs of moustaches before they found perfectly symmetrical ones when they first began filming in 1988. We'll start "head to toe" on the costume of Hercule Poirot. For the article on David Suchet's portrayal of Hercule Poirot on We'll discuss a little about specifically the "look" of Poirot on the show. In fact, one of the wonderful things of the television series isĪdmiring the costumes on screen. One of the iconic images of the Poirot television series is Poirot's costume itself.
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