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| Aidan Turner Photo: Barry McCall |
Aidan is known to many as Kili the dwarf in The Hobbit film trilogy and as Mitchell the vampire in the cult BBC TV drama Being Human. As Mitchell, Aidan plays a complex character who becomes more dark and brooding as the series progresses and it's good to see Aidan being cast as a character with many facets to his personality again.
In an interview back in December with SBTN Aidan said he was doing, "something -erm - a TV series in March" and fans, who have missed seeing him on their TV screens these last three years, will be delighted that it turns out to be the lead in such an iconic drama.
Aidan says, "I'm very excited to play Ross Poldark for the BBC and it's obviously a huge challenge to honour the extraordinary character Winston Graham created and who Debbie Horsfield has brought new life to. But there's a terrific team coming together and the scripts are superb, so I can't wait to get started."
Poldark is produced by Mammoth Screen. Filming begins in mid-April and will be based in Cornwall and Bristol. Poldark is expected to air on BBC TV next year in eight one-hour episodes.
Footnote 1 March 2017:
Some nice Poldark trivia here: Producers Mammoth Screen have just told us that the publicity pics of #AidanTurner, used to announce his role as Ross, were taken on Hampstead Heath near Kenwood House.
https://twitter.com/mammothscreen/status/836906188746940419
Poldark is set in Cornwall in the late eighteenth century, where battle scarred Ross Poldark returns home from war to find his country facing hard times and the life he once knew, gone forever. Ross is a character full of contradictions and, according to Damien Timmer, Executive Producer for Mammoth Screen, there was only one person for the part. Damien says, "Ross Poldark is an iconic role - we needed an actor with the right combination of striking looks, youthful rebelliousness, emotional complexity and maturity of presence which hints at the man he becomes across the saga. In our minds there was only one candidate. Happily he said yes!"
Poldark is produced by Mammoth Screen. Filming begins in mid-April and will be based in Cornwall and Bristol. Poldark is expected to air on BBC TV next year in eight one-hour episodes.
Footnote 1 March 2017:
Some nice Poldark trivia here: Producers Mammoth Screen have just told us that the publicity pics of #AidanTurner, used to announce his role as Ross, were taken on Hampstead Heath near Kenwood House.
https://twitter.com/mammothscreen/status/836906188746940419
