But I Always Feel That Whatever I

The First Couple Of Weeks Of Filming Were Quite Tricky For Me To Find My Feet With The Character [maigret], Which Wasn't Helped By The Story That We Were Telling.

When You Play A Serious Role, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Feel I'm Using Exactly The Same Skills, Whatever They Are, To Play The Role As You Do With Something More Obviously Comic. It's Slightly Different Muscles, But The Same Skill Set.

To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need Is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform

Paris In The Mid-'50s Was A Very Interesting Place. It Was Only Ten Years After The Third Reich Had Left, And The City Was Awash With Guns, And Crime, And Racketeering, And All Sorts Of Hangovers From A Very Difficult Time In French History. So It's An Interesting Time To Be A Policeman.

The Maigret Stories Are All Very Different In Terms Of The Content And The Way That The Stories Are Told. They're Not What I Would Call Formulaic.