The sexuality of Agatha Christie’s enigmatic confirmed bachelor detective, Hercule Poirot, will be explored in a forthcoming blockbuster adaptation.
The BBC six–part series, Hercule, with Edward Bluemel in the title role, is soon to start filming, mostly in Liverpool.
It will tackle the famous Belgian sleuth’s backstory and origins in a way not attempted by the beloved ITV adaptations, starring David Suchet, which simply followed Christie’s lead and introduced us to Poirot as a fussy, precise, middle–aged man with no interest in women – or men.
A source says: ‘The question of Poirot’s sexuality is addressed but not head–on. This is not an
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