David Suchet would 'love' to do a Poirot film

David Suchet would "love" to star in a \'Poirot\' movie.

The 71-year-old actor - who played the Belgian detective in the Dame Agatha Christie TV adaptation from 1989 to 2013 - would be up for portraying the beloved character in a film, but wouldn\'t do another TV show in the role.

Speaking on \'This Morning\' on Wednesday (06.02.19), he said: "I\'d do the movie but I wouldn\'t do another television show. But I\'d do the movie. I\'d love to do that."

David played Poirot closely to how Agatha wrote him because he felt her readers expected a character who would match what she had imagined, but admitted he considered quitting over a wardrobe issue.

He said: "That was my brief. From the Agatha Christie estate as well because the audience was mainly a readership and they wanted the readership to see what Agatha had created and that\'s one of the reasons I did what I did.

"I had my brief and I wanted to do it as she wrote it and I studied and studied and studied.

"I knew what he would wear on certain occasions. And when I wasn\'t allowed to do that, because they wanted to do something different, I said \'Well, no, if I\'m going to be Agatha Christie\'s Poirot I must be him in totally and not just in part.\' "

What\'s more, \'The Way We Live Now\' actor was adamant he didn\'t want to play Poirot in scripts that were written after the legendary writer\'s death

He said: "I\'d done every story she\'d ever written and there was no need to go on in stories she hadn\'t written. And the title of my series was \'Agatha Christie\'s Poirot\'."