Actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin took on the role of the iconic consulting detective Sherlock Holmes in the web series Young Sherlock. Creator Matthew Parkhill reveals that Hero was the first person to audition for the role, and he nailed it in the first read.
Matthew Parkhill, the creator of Young Sherlock, informs us that the actor was actually the first person to have auditioned for the role. He tells us, “Guy Ritchie (co-creator) had worked with Hero on a movie called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. So he knew him already but Hero was the first person to audition for the role.
Matthew Parkhill also reveals an interesting connection between Young Sherlock and Bollywood: “There's a character Mrs. Tilcott in the later episodes, who adopts or looks after a major character in the show. She played Elizabeth in Lagaan.”
Young Sherlock gives a new insight into the eponymous character as it sees him as a human first, and a detective later, something quite different from any previous adaptation of it. Matthew Parkhill says, “I never thought of it quite in those terms, but for me, it was like he's not a detective. In every Sherlock adaptation before, he's already a detective. But here, if he's not a detective, he's not just going to take a case. So, for me, it was like how do you drag him into it where he has no choice but to try and find the answers to this mystery.
Matthew Parkhill also shares that he wanted to explore how Sherlock came into becoming that person through the show. “I'm always interested in the Conan Doyle's Sherlock. He is a very strange character. He's very eccentric, a loner. He has no friends apart from Watson. He's an oddball and I love that about him. So for me, it was like how does he become that person?” he says.
