NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Safe and The Minister of Ungentlemanly Warfare actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin says his new action-dramedy, Young Sherlock, depicts one of literature's most iconic sleuths as viewers have never seen him before.
Executive produced and directed by Guy Ritchie and premiering on Prime Video Wednesday, the series takes place in 1870s England and follows brilliant, fast-talking, trouble-plagued teen Sherlock Holmes as he works as an Oxford University servant following a brief prison sentence for pick-pocketing.
"I would say that Sherlock is far from the finished, polished, final product that we meet him at the start of Arthur Conan Doyle's works," Tiffin, 28, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"We can see the foundations and the building blocks of the character that he's going to become, but also place him far enough away that we weren't telling an origin story," he said. "We can really document that growth."
Tiffin said it was all about striking a balance between who the private detective was as a young man and who he would eventually become.
