Well, you were able to thwart death to return as another nefarious villain, David Robert Jones on Fringe. It wouldn’t be a question of whether I want to or not - that’s a discussion happening in other rooms with people who have a higher pay grade! Would you want to come back for a third installment of the series?
I was going to be in The Departed, too, did you know? Every actor would love to work with Martin Scorsese, but sometimes, it just doesn’t work out.Īnyone who’s read the Sherlock Holmes stories sort of knows what to expect at the Reichenbach Fall, but falling over a waterfall doesn’t have to kill either of you. But in the end, it was about the first ADs getting together and working out a schedule.
If you have a chance to play Moriarty, come on! You got to do it. You know, I was trying to work it out to do both, but then both came at the same time, and I couldn’t work out the schedule. At what point did you ditch that to play Moriarty? You almost played Percy Alleline in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Now I sound like a right fucking wacko - what did you do to me? There was something about the state he could put himself in, because he would start to go to sleep and just stop himself and maintain some part of his consciousness while accessing another part. He would go into a trance and be able to diagnose you, and he was incredibly accurate. Edgar Cayce was a physician living in Virginia in the late 1800s. There are some people who have some sort of connection, but I don’t think if I were to go off and study tea leaves that I could develop that ability. He came out saying that most psychics are frauds who just have uncanny insights. Michael Crichton, who trained as a doctor, wrote this book Travels, and one of the things he explored in terms of his different journeys is the supernatural. In fact, Houdini used to spend a lot of time going around investigating psychic claims and he debunked everything. It’s all bullshit, but it’s entertaining. No one ever says, “Don’t leave your house on the 13th,” because if someone did leave their house, nothing would happen. I had it analyzed once, but all I remember is that they said I was “really passionate.” That’s a good thing, right? It was on some talk show in Nashville, and I got this guy to do my Tarot cards and charts and whatnot, and of course, they all say nice things. When Sherlock analyzes Moriarty’s handwriting, he calls him, among other things, narcissistic and “morally insane.” What do you think your handwriting would say about you? It was a fairly ugly game where we had one king each at the end and nothing else left. Guy Ritchie and I played, but we beat each other into a standstill. Have we played each other? See, if Robert wasn’t allowed to talk, I would win, but he makes me laugh too much, so if he could talk, we would just start chatting away. So what would happen if you played chess with Robert Downey Jr.? Who would win? Do you think you could match wits with Sherlock Holmes? Vulture chatted with Harris about playing the villain, beating Guy Ritchie into a bloody pulp - at least at chess - and psychic phenomena.
Moriarty is both cultured and cruel, someone who plays with real lives with as little compassion if they were pawns on his chess board. But now, in Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, we finally come face to face with Moriarty, played by Jared Harris ( of Mad Men). We caught a glimpse of the nefarious professor in the last Sherlock Holmes film, mainly via his assistant Irene Adler. Despite appearing in only two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Professor James Moriarty is considered Sherlock Holmes’s greatest nemesis and detective literature’s first super-villain.
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