The actor told Five Live's Danny Baker that he has been cast opposite Robert Downey Jr as the older brother of the Baker Street detective, "I'm playing Mycroft in the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film Guy Ritchie directed with Robert Downey Jr."
Fry noted that he is looking forward to the part, although he admitted that he more enjoys taking on a leading role, as he did in 1997 biopic Wilde :
"That sort of part Sherlock Holmes is fun, but just once in a while to play a genuine all-round sort of lead figure with complexity and tragedy and wit and all the sort of things that Oscar Wilde had was a once-in-a-lifeftime thrill."
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law will be back as Holmes and Watson, while Rachel McAdams will reprise her role as Irene Adler. Noomi Rapace (
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will make her English-language debut as the sequel’s female lead, rumoured to be a French Gypsy
Sherlock Holmes 2 is due to film this year for a December 16, 2011 release!
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