The man who for four pectoral-perfect years was Poldark is recalling the moment he felt he had arrived as an actor. Aidan Turner was 27, perhaps 28, and playing both an accidentally lethal vampire in BBC3’s Being Human and the more deliberately dangerous Dante Gabriel Rossetti in BBC2’s Desperate Romantics. His career was going so well that he rented his first place in London, a flat above Mornington Crescent station.
“I was chuffed with myself. It was the coolest thing, hanging out with cool actors and going to bars and trying to live this hedonistic lifestyle that the artists were living. And I still had the energy every morning to go to work.”
I hope, I say, he realises that is all over, now
