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Aidan Turner is set to star in the BBC’s new adaptation of Poldark — the series of novels written by Winston Graham in the 1940s and 1950s. <\/p>\n Aidan Turner is set to star in the BBC’s new adaptation of Poldark — the series of novels written by Winston Graham in the 1940s and 1950s. <\/p>\n
He recently spoke with The Telegraph about the role. He also dropped a few anecdotes about his time on The Hobbit, and revealed how a story about him helping a fan escape a mugger in Odessa is not actually true.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Ringer Taekotemple for the heads-up!<\/p>\n
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The day we meet, Aidan Turner has just got off a flight from America. \u201cWhen I woke up before we landed,\u201d he says, \u201cguess who had just been sleeping next to me the whole time? Jeremy Irons!\u201d<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t just luvvie name-dropping. Telling the story, he visibly inflates with glee. Wide-eyed, tall, impossibly good-looking and with a mop of dark, curly hair scraped back from his face, the Irish actor fizzes with life. Despite recently starring in the Hobbit films and being poised to play the romantic lead in the BBC\u2019s swashbuckling new rendition of the Seventies TV series Poldark, Turner is easily starstruck.<\/p>\n
As well as playing the dwarf Kili in the three-part Hobbit juggernaut, Turner is already known to British TV viewers as Mitchell the vampire in BBC Three series Being Human, and as the libertine poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 2009\u2019s Desperate Romantics. His roles have inspired a cultish following, and though he says he doesn\u2019t do social media himself, he\u2019s aware that there are swathes of the internet where \u201cAidan Turner Forever\u201d is a sacred mantra for fans.<\/p>\n