DCI Banks author Peter Robinson has said that he doesn’t mind his famous character having had a slight makeover for TV, as he likes the programme.
Peter said the characters he had created for the best-selling books the ITV series is based on looked a bit different to actors Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe in his mind, but that he understood no actor could ever be what every reader would expect.
He said: “I have to put TV out of my mind when I’m writing. Stephen is taller than the Banks in the books, and my Annie (DS Annie Cabbot) is a brunette, whereas Andrea Lowe plays her as a blonde.
“It doesn’t matter. You can’t expect exact duplication. No actor is going to satisfy everybody’s image of the way a fictional character should look, but that doesn’t mean he or she can’t capture that character’s spirit. I think it’s a good TV series.”
Peter also revealed Stephen had wanted to come to Canada, where the Yorkshire-born actor now lives, to visit and get an idea of how to play the role.
He said: “Stephen wanted to talk about the character and offered to come over to Toronto to see me in the middle of winter. I said, we’re going to Tampa [Florida], so he came over to see us there instead, which was a much sunnier place to do his research.”
:: New DCI Banks novel Abattoir Blues by Peter Robinson is published by Hodder & Stoughton on July 31, priced £18.99
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DCI Banks author fine with changes
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