What was your first reaction when you read the pilot and also what about the tenuous sobriety issue that may be part of the arc for your characters?
Jonny Lee Miller: That element was a huge attraction for me. I always feel that characters that have problems and issues to deal with are more fun to play, especially if you’re trying to balance that with a supposed genius for something and then make him not comfortable with that. You know, give him an edge. It leads into the relationship that Holmes and Watson have. That’s a plus all round for me to bring some darkness into it and have some problems, and it’s something a little more edgy that we don’t necessarily see too much on network television. So, I was very happy about that.
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