KENNETH BRANAGH: ‘WE WANT TO MAKE MORE POIROT FILMS’

Were you worried about the fact that people already knew the plot of Murder On The Orient Express?

My experience on this journey has been that fewer people remember what the end was than they like to let on!

How did you cope with the challenges of directing your own performance?

[Laughs] Well, thank God I had some help... Ultimately in film you do have the opportunity to look at the rushes of what you did and, in some cases, I’d do the scene again if I didn’t think I’d quite hit the mark.

Did you pick up any of Poirot’s quirky traits during filming?

A touch of Poirot was infecting me, so I was liking being a bit of a neat freak! I liked things clean and clear, and not too many people around on set, so that’s what the actor brought to the director.

You’ve left the door open to return as Hercule Poirot, with a hint that he’s heading to the River Nile?

Who knows? It really depends on whether the audience responds. It feels with Michael Green as screenwriter... and certainly with my appetite for Poirot, we’d love to do some more.