The actor talks shop about "Sherlock" and the changes dawning upon us in Series Four
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Lots of things have happened for dear old Dr Watson. Played by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Sherlock Holmes' best friend is back in the "Sherlock" Series Four as a new father. The first episode, titled "The Six Thatchers", will premiere on 2 Jan on BBC.
The episode accompanies the "Thatcher" teaser that was announced at Comic Con earlier this year. It has been speculated to be loosely based on the Arthur Conan Doyle story, "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", which focuses on Inspector Lestrade and the search of a hidden pearl.
We previously heard from Benedict Cumberbatch how Sherlock will be coping with the new addition to his life. Now, let's see what Freeman has to say about his on-screen family.
Does John’s domestic life interfere with his and Sherlock’s crime-solving life?
John is very happy to have a loving relationship, very happy to be a father and a husband but he would miss the adventures like crazy. There’s a subconscious reason he fell in with a mad bloke who goes around killing a lot – why he ended up as his flatmate and not a librarian’s flatmate.
I love being at home but I would miss acting if I didn’t do it for more than a month and I do start to get edgy and I think John would be like that without crime-fighting.
What changes will there be between John and Sherlock?
It wouldn’t be much of a show if it changed to the extent [that] there was just that domestic life and all we were doing were feeding babies and changing nappies and then Sherlock is off fighting crime on his own. It still has to be the same show so there has to be a bit of give and take.
Obviously when you get married and have a baby that trumps everything else in real life but for this show John and Sherlock’s friendship has to stay central so it will still be very John and Sherlock-centric.
How would John’s life differ if he hadn’t met Sherlock?
As we know, John likes excitement and the thrill of the adventure. As many service personnel do, there’s a feeling that something is missing when they come back to peace.
John would have ended up in a bedsit on his own when he came back from Afghanistan – trying to become a doctor, trying to get his own practice and becoming a GP, I suppose.
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