Sherlock – Rupert Graves ‘Lestrade has got the Hots For Molly!’

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The Abominable Bride left us near enough where we were – we’ll at least we’ve gotten off the plane now – so as far as Season 4 of Sherlock goes, the direction of the new series is still open for debate.

One man who isn’t shy entering into such debates is Lestrade himself, Rupert Graves, who, while promoting ABC’s upcoming drama The Family – a political drama centring around the return of a Mayor’s son after he disappeared ten years ago; the pilot episode was directed by Sherlock alum Paul McGuigan – said that, while he hasn’t seen any scripts yet, he does have one development in mind for the good inspector.

“I think definitely Lestrade has got the hots for Molly,” he said. “So maybe they’ll develop that. We don’t know what happens until we see the scripts, and that could literally be a couple of weeks before you film.”

Lestrade and Molly, sitting in a morgue…erh…something, something Luxembourg? Yeah, it needs work but while there’s nothing on paper (two weeks seems to be cutting it fine too) to say that Lestrade and Molly, played by Louise Brealey, will ever go beyond the ‘hots’ stage, it’s interesting to ponder quite what the future holds for Lestrade as he seemingly becomes more dependent on Sherlock than, you know, his actual skills as a detective.

Although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived him as the best of a bad lot (Conan Doyle gave him the rather unflattering look of “a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow” but Sherlock admired his energetic, quick personality), he’s a key character in the sense that he knows when to indulge Sherlock and when to shut him down – something that makes him easy to warm to in Sherlock.

But as weaknesses go, his dependence upon Sherlock is for the greater good. It’s a question that Collider put to the actor who in The Family, again, has to deal with cops of the twisted and complicated The Family.

“He would be on the telephone to Sherlock right away. He can’t operate that well without Holmes…he’s not on the same level as Sherlock, but he’s the best of that lot, and I sort of approach him like that.”

Sherlock Season 4 is set to start filming later this year.

 

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