Conclusion to Liane Hansen's 1991 NPR (National Public Radio) interview with Jeremy Brett. (in which he discusses his personal life, performing on stage, and his "hound of Heaven")
Breaks my heart to hear him say "I'm going to complete the canon." knowing he couldn't due to not only his health being bad but his mental state as well. Not ashamed to say I paused to cry.
@@ad0906013 Considering that the comment is two years old I'm gonna say it was either Autocorrect acting up or I couldn't remember if it were 1 N or 2 in the word. Merry Christmas.
Jeremy was keen. He was Sherlock Holmes. There will never be another like him. Thank you for this treasure. He was able to separate himself from the difficulty of playing Holmes. I dearly miss him.
what an amazing interviewer. she was so gentle and actually let the man give a full answer. so grateful she interviewed him, wish it could have gone on so much longer.
This was so beautifully bittersweet. It is so poignant that he wanted to complete the canon, but I reckon You Know Who was not willing to let him finish it and say goodbye. I do hope, in some dimension more benevolent than ours, I get to shake your hand my dear sir and tell you how helplessly I miss a man who passed on before I even came to life. For me, Mr Brett will always be like the character that he indeed gave life to.. immortal..what's born of the heart never dies. Thank you so much for posting this incredible interview macolleague
I recently have discovered Jeremy as Sherlock and to me, he IS Sherlock Holmes. He brought such a great depth and presence to the role and also a hint of vulnerability now and again. Listening to this interview makes me love Jeremy even more. What a sweet, incredible man. What a great loss to the world. I hope I can meet him someday when I am free of this earth.
I have felt the same way as you did about Jeremy Brett. When I leave this earth, it would be an honor to meet him along with John Lennon, Martin Luther King jr. and others.
He is the Sherlock Holmes and he was outside of his role so an extraordinary , warm and interesting person .I would love to have met both Sherlock (who of course never existed) and Jeremy (who sadly died way too young).
Wow. This is an amazing interview. Liane Hansen, one of the best interviewers in the world, and Jeremy Brett, the beloved talented brilliant Sherlock Holmes. Thank you for uploading this. You did a beautiful job with the photos reflecting what was being discussed! Thanks again!
❤ Thank you for sharing this so much love for Jeremy Brett, dearest Holmes. Never will be another like him. Such a magical meeting of actor and character that touched so many lives. Holmes never so beloved till Jeremy Brett brought him to life. Thank you.
Themanwhocameback2 Liane Hansen was one of the best interviewers that I have ever heard. I’m so glad that she did this interview with the incomparable Jeremy Brett. It is a lasting gift to us all. Many, many thanks for posting this...
Oh god, the feels, I remeber being in my grandparents house when I saw him the first time. I had no idea at that time that he had died eight years or so previously. I loved him, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Hardwicke from the very moment I saw them on screen. He was Holmes to me, and when I read the books years later, I saw him and a mixture of Mr. Burke and Mr. Hardwicke in my head. His precision, his drawl, they were all there in my mind during every adventure. I can honestly say that Holmes was my first and longest lasting character crush, because of this man. Holmes also made the fact that I didn't fit in school easier, because I had him to look up to. He taught me that you didn't have to be like everyone else to be something worth while, and Mr. Brett had no small part in that education. If there is an afterlife, and it is allowed, I would like to meet Mr. Brett and to thank him for being such a defining part of my childhood. R. I. P.
+JJtronlady "He taught me that you didn't have to be like everyone else to be something worth while" That's really the best thing to take away from the character of Sherlock Holmes isn't it?
AverageO really? However, Mr. Brett looks perfect in all angels well according to streotypes that exist today too. Then how's it that he embodies notions that anyone can rise.
That part that he says that he will complet the canon is really touching. What happened is that Holmes loved so much Brett, that he grabbed him forcibly into his immortality. His body needed to rest, his soul wil abide for as much as we keep his memory alive.
I might add: a tremendous loss because it’s always a loss when a decent person dies . Not for selfish reasons , such as, we can not have more of his work. That is secondary and not important. The loss, is the loss of Jeremy Brett; that he is no longer with us .
This is a wonderful discovery. Thank you so very much for posting one of the most kind and literate interviews it has ever been my privilege to experience. Mr. Brett was certainly the definitive Holmes, and how much passion and care he brought to his art! Rest in peace, Mr. Brett, there are so many who love and remember you.
Much appreciated by another big fan, despite his passing some years back. I hardly knew JB as an actor before this personification, but in that role, he WAS and IS Holmes to me.
Only recently started to rekindle my interest in Sherlock again, but remember Brett from my youth. Now a good many years later, I still find him a wonderful, sensitive man who I could listen to and watch for hours. He will be forever missed and IMO was the best Sherlock there was. Thanks for sharing :)
When she asked "When you're done with the cannon, what else is there to do?" ..it sent shivers down my spine. I expected him to say "I can die then..." Sadly he died even before.
Am a fan of Mr Brett,did not know he went thru so much in his life. Its sad to find this out. Just hoped he somehow found ways of enjoying himself after his terrible loss,cos i can relate.rip mr holmes.
I grew up watching the Granada Holmes in Japan. They were dubbed of course, but still superb, and many kids and teens fell in love with Jeremy. He inspired me to read the Canon in first place. On my first trip to London, I went straight to 221B Baker St on the very first day.
It's sad hearing him talk about how Holmes never entered Brett's dreams, because the former eventually did show up as the latter's health deteriorated. From what I recall, Brett even said that his dreams about Holmes "turned into nightmares".
In his voice, as in some moment of the SH episodes, I can clearly hear his already compromised lungs and heart (or more likely, both); Signs of the disease which would contribute to his death only a few short years after this interview.
Such a bittersweet interview - especially when he says he is to do the entire canon. :( Difficult to hold back the tears there... I wish Jeremy could have lived today to see how beloved Holmes is all over the world right now with the BBC show and the Warner Brothers movies and everything - and I wish someone could let him know how loved he himself still is!
Varias veces se le entrecortaba la voz. Hoy se cumplen 19 años de haberse ido al viaje que todos en algún momento haremos. Descubrí a Jeremy Brett nada más y nada menos que hace dos semanas, y de verdad me quedé enganchada y encantada a su persona, a su belleza y a su gran talento. Obviamente, como le leí a alguien: "muchos actores han interpretado a Sherlock Holmes, pero Jeremy Brett es Sherlock Holmes".
Jeremy Brett's performance as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada/PBS Masterpiece Mystery series was the reason I started watching PBS in the first place. Sesame Street had started right after my childhood ended, so I missed it entirely. Brett's Sherlock Holmes series came in my twenties when I was a dyed-in-the-wool Holmes fan from Doyle's books. I was delighted that Brett found and played up on the quirks and rare displays of emotion that I always noticed in them! To me, Holmes was a repressed child, so he never quit being a child! He acted with the Victorian courtesy that he was taught, but his mind was always on the hunt for the next really cool thing! That's why he almost seems autistic at times. His world only brushes elbows with the mundane adult world, as he is constantly and completely immersed in his own world of adventure and learning all there was to know about his interests. Brett, I think, saw this too and created his Holmes around that idea, much to the delight of all that view his work in this series. I shed a little tear thinking of how magnificent it would have been for him to do the entire catalog. Our loss, most definitely! Thank you for presenting this PBS story on Jeremy Brett. He is and will forever be, my true Sherlock Holmes.❤🎩
I’m in tears at times watching his performance he was so three dimensional his performance was beyond the stories as they depicted him there never will be an should never anyone try to best Jeremy Brett‘s performance as far as I’m concerned 😔
@hadassah179- There are 60 total stories, 4 of which were novels. So sad to hear Brett wanted to finish the canon here but we know now he never got the chance. Damn that woulda been awesome.
Reading your comment, I was suddenly struck by this inspiration: We know that Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman can do a convincing periode version of Holmes, set in Victorian/Edwardian times. Interest them in a project to honor Jeremy and Edward Hardwick by finishing the series, even going so far as to reproducing the sets and the music. This could complete the series and revive public's memory of one of the finest Holmes series that featured Jeremy and Edward.
Lovely to hear his voice. It could have been yesterday. Ah, Jeremy.. you have no idea how big a part you played in so many people's lives. I wish you hadn't smoked so much.
When I found out he died I was sitting at my desk and I slammed my fist down upon it and cried out my mother came up to see what was the matter In tears i basically shooed her away much like holmes would have done to Mrs. Hudson I didn’t even realize what I was doing to this day I have friends who say I have an insight to a lot of things that they don’t see didn’t realize and they’re amazed at my gift that I was not born with but acquired through Sherlock Holmes😔 so sorry mom😔
Unfortunately, they didn't really delve into JB's radical departure from the other Holmeses, i.e., Jeremy's Sherlock is quite clearly OCD/addictive-personality/personality disorder with herculean amounts of self-discipline to keep it all on the rails. This was why we all raved about the series, how supposedly realistic it was. But today I fear it might have been anachronistic. Not sure . . . and suffering as a result.
This is a series which couldn't be made today, despite advances in technology. Watson would be black and Mrs Hudson would be trans, probably. In the background, it'd look like contempt London. What a shame we're afraid to portray London as it looked in the latter half of the nineteenth century
