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Agatha Christie reshoot with Ed Westwick stand-in is 'seamless'

Ordeal By Innocence airs on Easter Sunday with cast reshooting scenes in Scotland over 12 days

The actor Christian Cooke who saved the BBC flagship drama production Agatha Christie’s Ordeal By Innocence, which finally screens on BBC One on Easter Sunday after being pulled from the Christmas schedule, described the process of starring in the reshoot as “surprisingly seamless”.

A crucial 35 minutes had to be reshot over 12 days in Scotland in bitter January weather and stitched together with the original scenes that were filmed in summer sunshine. The sharp-eyed may spot that at one point while Cooke is manfully not shivering, his breath is steaming in the icy air.

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