Henshall spoke recently about the inspirations behind his performance as Horton, and revealed a specific politician who he looked at as a guide for how to play him.<\/p>\n
Henshall said: \u201cThere is a very particular kind of Englishman who is on the other end of that spectrum and you don\u2019t see them that often.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny, I never thought in all my years that I would ever talk positively about Michael Heseltine but, recently, he is a man who has been talking sense, moral sense and from a position of someone who was in Thatcher\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a little bit of me that thinks when those kinds of Englishmen stand up and talk from a moral standpoint, you can really easily get behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"Lord](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1504129670-9e5cf43.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"GettyImages-1504129670\\"\/")
\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>Henshall continued: \u201cI think that I wanted Major Horton to be one of them in the way that, when you first see him half glaring at Fitz [Luke Fitzwilliam, Jonsson\u2019s character], your thoughts immediately go to \u2018Oh he\u2019s that guy, is he?\u2019 and then you find out that\u2019s entirely on its head, and I just loved the way that that was slowly drawn out and I wanted to try and get that across with bells on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The drama sees Fitzwilliam meet Miss Pinkerton (Wilton) on a train to London, when she tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe.<\/p>\n The villagers believe the deaths are accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise, and when she\u2019s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they strike again.<\/p>\n Murder Is Easy forms packed of a stacked schedule on BBC One<\/a> over the festive period, which also includes Christmas specials for Doctor Who<\/a>, Call the Midwife<\/a> and the start of The Tourist<\/a> season 2.<\/p> Murder is Easy is coming to BBC iPlayer from 6am on 27 December with episode one airing on BBC One later that evening and episode two the following night. Check out more of our Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Want to visit Death in Paradise locations in Guadeloupe at a discount?\u00a0<\/strong>Radio Times is offering savings of up to 7% for registered users booking their next holiday with travel website Expedia.\u00a0<\/strong>Claim your exclusive Radio Times Expedia holiday discount now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n “He is a man who has been talking sense, moral sense.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42634,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-scaled.jpg",2560,1853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-300x217.jpg",300,217,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-768x556.jpg",768,556,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-1024x741.jpg",800,579,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-1536x1112.jpg",1536,1112,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/douglas-henshall-on-unlikely-political-inspiration-for-murder-is-easy-role-2048x1483.jpg",2048,1483,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"He is a man who has been talking sense, moral sense.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/42633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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