NEW YORK, March 22 (UPI) -- The White Queen, The Host and Miss Austen actor Max Irons says he wasn't afraid to put his own spin on the well-known literary character Mycroft Holmes in the new series, Young Sherlock.
"I try not to worry about that too much. I go and I watch other people's interpretations and sometimes you're intimidated, sometimes you're in awe and you steal bits and pieces here. You ignore bits and pieces there," Irons, 40, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"But then I think you let it go because these things, I think, can weigh you down and what Guy Ritchie does so fearlessly, irreverently, is come in and just throw everything you think you know about Sherlock and everything you think you know about your character up in the air and he does it with no warning," the actor explained.
"What it leads to is a re-imagining, a natural, organic, re-imagining of material that people are familiar with and I think he will achieve in attracting a legion of new Sherlock fans who will then go on to enjoy the rest of the material."
Executive produced and directed by Ritchie, the Prime Video series takes place in 1870s England and follows brilliant, fast-talking, trouble-plagued teen Sherlock Holmes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) as he works as an Oxford University servant following a brief prison sentence for pick-pocketing.
