The star of Disney+'s new historical drama says Shardlake's disability is an important part of him, but doesn't define him, and was happy with how the show portrayed the sleuth as 'stoic', 'independent', and 'physically strong'. Shardlake is streaming on Disney+ from 1 May.
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00:00 What I really loved about him, he's an interesting character,
00:02 but he's not defined by his disability in the show,
00:05 which I thought was really good.
00:06 And I wondered for you, what did you think of the way
00:09 the narrative approached the character and his disability?
00:12 I think it handles it really well.
00:14 I think, Anthony, we were speaking earlier,
00:17 and Anthony said about, you know,
00:19 the least interesting thing about Shardlake is his disability.
00:25 And I completely agree with that.
00:27 I think that goes with most disabled people.
00:31 Important part of them, but not the thing that defines them.
00:33 And Shardlake's thing that defines him is his brain
00:38 and his heart and his care and courage.
00:42 And so I think that's even just with the, you know,
00:46 before it was being made for this show,
00:50 the book really, I think, really addresses that.
00:54 I think it was great.
00:55 I hope that we made Shardlake, and I think we did,
00:58 a much kind of stronger, less afraid of everything,
01:02 afraid of his own shadow a bit in the book,
01:04 but a character that's kind of a bit more stoic
01:06 and independent and maybe physically strong as well.
01:11 So I, yeah, I was happy with how Shardlake was presented, yeah.
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