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She Turned Down the Role of Irene Adler Three Times. Then She Watched the Script One More Time and Called Back.

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She Turned Down the Role of Irene Adler Three Times. Then She Watched the Script One More Time and Called Back.

Lara Pulver was not the first choice for Irene Adler in Sherlock. She was not the second choice either.

The role had been offered to several actresses before it reached her.

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The character as written — a dominatrix who outmaneuvers Holmes, who appears entirely without clothing in her first scene, who is simultaneously victim and predator — was considered risky. Several actresses passed. The professional calculation was understandable: a role that could define a career in either direction, with more ways to get wrong than right.

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