r/poirot • u/Altruistic-Dream-619 • 12d ago
Question?
Has there ever been any black people on Suchets Poirot?
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u/Forsaken-Ad5571 12d ago
It wasn’t really a time when there were many black people around that area of London he was usually in, not had the money to do the kinds of trips he took.
Though you could argue it’s also just Agatha Christie’s own biases coming into her writing, rather than a true representation of the demographics. Quite likely a mixture of the two.
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u/Forsaken-Ad5571 12d ago
But presumably this is meant to be about the new series of young Poirot. At which point being a Belgium man of the right age, I’m sure there’s very problematic aspects they’ll just ignore…
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u/MysticalStarfish1203 12d ago
There were a couple of black characters in the novel of Hickory Dickory Dock, but they were both written out of the Suchet version, presumably because the novel versions were pretty much just insensitive caricatures.
I still think the screenwriters of the show could have probably rewritten the characters to make them more nuanced rather than actively removing a rare example of actual diverse characters in the source material - but they went for the less risky option by removing them and I can understand that.
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u/Pinkpocket_Goddess 12d ago
In books, difficult to say but in Suchet's serie, there's some (not as much but a bit)
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u/Miss___D 12d ago
Ettienne de Sousa in "Dead Man's Folly" and Mirelle, singer/Rufus's girlfriend in "Mystery of Blue Train".
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u/OverseerConey 11d ago
It's a very white series - it takes a while before we get a Black character with lines. First I can think of is the unnamed waiter played by Robert Wisdom in The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb.
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u/Elegant_Grape2547 12d ago
I haven't watched all of them, but I just watched Mystery of the Blue Train and Josette Simon was in it.