(dramatic music) - Monk Adderley is the great provocateur of the new series of Poldark.
He's the sort of rotten end of London High Society, I would say.
He was very ambitious when he was younger, there were lots of similarities, I think, to Ross.
He had a very successful military career, he's now become an MP, but the similarities kind of end there.
Ross is very noble and very idealistic, and Monk is quite a self-serving hedonist.
- The name Poldark rings a bell.
Are you not in the house?
- A new member.
- [Max] Monk is the Ross that went bad.
- Isn't great luck to see you there.
- Nor is it likely.
- [Max] Monk is fascinated by him, and think would like to really pick holes in his idealism, because Monk is an entirely cynical person, and I think bringing him down would be a source of relish for him.
- I took you for a threadbare troubadour who'd been dismissed without a tip.
- [Max] He's somebody who loves pushing people's buttons.
- I'd accept tips with even less grace.
- [Max] He'll kind of work out what makes people uncomfortable, - Always accept what ladies have to offer.
- [Max] While lots of people will kind of shy away from sitting in those uncomfortable silences, he'll actively create them.
- Shall we return to the party?
- Monk is a great user of people.
He will leech off rich, important people.
Villains are great fun to play.
Within all of us there is the ability to do horrendous things.
- Come to try your luck, sir?
You have a reckless streak?
- Only with my own money.
- Mining why people do that is great fun.
And also, he's just brilliantly written.
- I really am quite hopeless.
Should I quit the field?
- Well, that seems a pity, when it affords you such pleasure.
- Interesting advice.
- I'm entirely disinterested.
Having nothing to lose, I have nothing to gain.
- How often we see those with nothing to lose assisting others to lose all they have.
- He's horrible, but he's quite enjoyable.
