![]() The newspaper that broke news of the transposed show suggested Lily James and Keeley Hawes as possible casting for a “Horatia Rumpole”, but that would bring the figure closer to the elegant and successful Phyllida Erskine-Brown, QC, played by Patricia Hodge in the original series. Emulating Mortimer, Rumpole preferred, on moral grounds, to defend, not prosecute. For instance, will she have back in the flat a “He Who Must Be Obeyed” (or, possibly, “Ignored”), or, even still share her life with a “She”?Ĭrucial, also, to the original character (first seen in a BBC One Play for Today in 1975) is being an Old Bailey “hack”, a barrister refusing to seek promotion to QC, and loftier and more lucrative briefs, in favour of taking cases from the bottom of the legal pile. Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/APĪs such, the biggest decision for the Mortimers is to what extent a “Horatia Rumpole” will share appearance, personality and dialogue with the McKern version. ![]() ![]() Emily Mortimer, who is writing the new Rumpole, which was based on her father’s novels, with her sister Rosie. ![]()
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