The Rye Lane star leads the cast, which boasts the likes of Morfydd Clark (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/a>), Tom Riley (The Nevers<\/a>) and Mark Bonnar (Guilt<\/a>), to name a few.<\/p>\n But Jonsson very nearly wasn\u2019t the lead on this Christie project, telling RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press at a screening for the series that he turned down the role on multiple occasions.<\/p> Jonsson said about leading the series: \u201cI feel very, very privileged and lucky to be doing what I\u2019m doing and to get any offer through as a young actor is rather special.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m in awe of Agatha Christie, because not only does she feel incredibly British, [but] just from a human perspective, the amount of work she created is crazy \u2013 and to be a woman is rather brilliant.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you \u2013 at first, I wasn\u2019t so sure about it, just because I\u2019m not a big fan of colour blind casting and I didn\u2019t know what this was.<\/p>\n |To be blind to anything is not a good thing, so I think I said no and they were quite persistent. So they said come and meet with the lovely team \u2026 and we spoke about it, and it turns out that Si\u00e2n [Ejiwunmi-Le Berre] wasn\u2019t blind to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cThey were really doing something different with this one and incorporating things that felt very true, I just wanted to make sure that whoever Luke was, he was real. People look at me and the first thing they\u2019re going to see is going to be a Black man so we\u2019re not going to be blind to that, we\u2019re just going to make sure that\u2019s there.<\/p>\n \u201cBut then there\u2019s the question of the other cast members \u2013 are you just going to put different people in it? And it wasn\u2019t \u2013 every single person you see has a history and it\u2019s true and real. I was on board. Terrified, but on board.\u201d<\/p>\n The new series unfolds across two nights, with the first episode already throwing up major questions about the identity of the murderer and keeping viewers hooked with the backstories of the villagers we meet.<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The two-parter is based on the novel of the same name by Christie, but has been adapted by Si\u00e2n Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and is directed by Meenu Gaur (Zinda Bhaag, World on Fire).<\/p>\n According to the synopsis: \u201cEngland, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe.<\/p>\n \u201cThe villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise \u2013 and when she\u2019s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy\u2026\u201d<\/p> ![\"A](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/6.-David-Jonsson-in-Murder-is-Easy-coming-soon-to-BBC-One-and-iPlayer-1-debfa1f.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"6.")
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