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Hugh Fraser: (on his fake nose in Sharpe) I like hot weather and sunshine so I was very happy to be out on location for Sharpe but my nose didn't appreciate the temperature so much and it posed quite a problem for the make-up team. We tried various adhesives but the problem was that the heat built up between my nose and the false nose. We were constantly trying to stop the flow of sweat and soon realised that each nose had a life of about seven hours in the heat. At the end of filming last year ... (more Hugh Fraser quotes)
Originally, Hugh was only offered a ten episode contract for Poirot, but the show was a success and he continued to appear in it.
Hugh is in most Poirot episodes, but he has not appeared in one since 2001's Murder in Mesopotamia. This is because the writers want to stay true to the stories, and not add Hastings in where he is not in the original books.
Hugh's first film role was in The Ritz as a long-haired hippie!
In addition to playing Captain Hastings in Poirot, Hugh has done several audio... (more Hugh Fraser trivia)
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