Suchet set for Dickens adaptation
David Suchet, known for two decades as detective Poirot, is taking on another literary figure of the law by joining the cast of Dickens’s 'Great Expectations'.
He will appear alongside stars such as Gillian Anderson and Ray Winstone in the BBC1 production which has just begun filming.
Suchet will play lawyer Mr Jaggers in the drama which will be screened at Christmas, ahead of next year’s centenary of Charles Dickens’s birth.
He follows in the footsteps of figures such as Anthony Quayle, Ian McDiarmid and Ray McAnally, who have played Jaggers in previous adaptations.
Anderson will star as Miss Havisham in the production, while Winstone will play Abel Magwitch.
