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Neo2199 OP t1_j9u7flc wrote

> Amanda Abbington has revealed she believes “nepotism” helped land her role in hit BBC drama Sherlock.

> Abbington was cast as Mary Watson, the wife of Sherlock Holmes’ friend and detective partner Doctor John Watson in 2014. At the time, Abbington was in a long-term relationship with Martin Freeman, who played Watson.

> “Because I was with Martin at the time, there was a lot of [accusations of] nepotism being banded about,” she told the Full Disclosure podcast. “It’s true, it was that.

> “Both Mark [Gatiss] and Steven [Moffat, the show’s writers] said they were trying to figure out who the best person would be to play Mary and they thought it would be the person who was going out with him.

> “It made sense. And we’d worked together on many things.”

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InflamedLiver t1_j9u8635 wrote

I suppose at least she's honest about it. She wasn't my favorite character on the show, but I blame the writing for that more than the acting.

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Theinternationalist t1_j9wgsdv wrote

Honestly, she seemed to be the only interesting bit of that terrible S3E1 episode and had some promise- until she got killed off unceremoniously.

That being said, S3 was around the time everyone noticed the wheels falling off (not just the people who thought they were getting a mystery show when it was mostly an action thing to begin with), so that probably made her worse than she could have been too...

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InflamedLiver t1_j9wn3hb wrote

the show kinda jumped the shark after Moriarty and Sherlock's "death." Moriarty was amazing and everything after that was just ok, at best.

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Cappy2020 t1_j9wfiaw wrote

To be fair, this is the BBC where nepotism is rife.

It’s an old boys club, not so much in terms of gender, but the amount of people who make it to the BBC who come from wealthy, connected and independent/privately educated backgrounds. Something like 7% of all people in the UK are privately educated, yet they make up a far higher proportion of BBC ‘talent’.

For a broadcasting service that is supposed to be representative of us - the people who watch and pay for it - it’s pretty disappointing to be honest.

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