![]() ![]() The alternative was to do a kind of washed-down version pushed in the direction of the tastes of the people who didn’t like it. It wasn’t really successful enough for their hand to be forced. So their reasoning about there being too many white detectives… I think that was all true but that doesn’t necessarily mean the truth can’t be used as a lie. “Before we’d even finished the second one, we were very aware that Danny Cohen and his cohorts at the BBC didn’t like it. “To tell the truth, I wasn’t surprised,” he says, adopting a candid tone that swiftly becomes the norm during our chat. It’s not long, for example, since his excellent detective series, Zen, was cancelled by the BBC after just one season. That’s partly born, you suspect, from many years of almost-stardom. Rufus is very down-to-earth about it all, an attitude he has towards everything from typecasting to the dodgy phone connection between us late on a weekday evening. (He plays a Nazi officer, John Smith, with a knack for hunting down members of an underground revolution.) Dick, whose name is as much a calling card for the show as Sewell’s. An alternate history thriller that asks what it would be like if the Nazis and Japan forces won World War II, it’s based on the book by Philip K. ![]() It’s a sign of how esteemed he is, though, that he’s one of the leads in Amazon’s high-profile new series, The Man in the High Castle. Opportunity knocked, but the door didn’t lead to stairs going up. That’s primarily because for the last three decades, he’s had the label of “Next Big Thing” weighing on his shoulders – something that never really happened. But to hear him talk about his career, he’s only just figuring it out. He’s highly regarded, regularly applauded, and even swooned over, thanks to his heartthrob looks and, after a run of TV hits in the 1990s, his charmingly villainous turn as Count Adhemar in A Knight’s Tale. He’s been in projects big and small, screened and staged, serialised and streamed. Rupert Sewell has had a successful career. ![]()
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