David Oyelowo's Javert Is A Man Who Never Forgives

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of *Les Miserables.

In Victor Hugo's landmark epic, Les Miserables, the Inspector Javert is a hard, cold man with a unflinching pursuit of his own personal justice. But in the critically-acclaimed new MASTERPIECE adaptation of the novel, actor and series executive producer David Oyelowo brings a subtle, sophisticated nuance to his performance, adding layers of context to this memorable villain. He joins the podcast for a preview of the villainy still to come in this this critically acclaimed series.

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0:39.0	When Jean Valjean
0:41.0	reinvents himself as ambitious factory owner Per Madeline, the mayor of Montroy,
0:46.0	his longtime nemesis Inspector Javert is close behind.
0:50.5	Years after leaving his post at the prison, Javert is rather unexpectedly, Montroy's new police
0:55.8	inspector.
0:56.8	You're the mayor, I thought we should become acquainted.
1:01.4	My name is Javert.
1:03.0	Javert doesn't immediately suspect the noble mayor to be the escaped convict from his
1:07.4	past, but his obsessive attention to detail and Valjean's superhuman strength gives the inspector the clues he needs to successfully
1:15.8	connect the dots.
1:16.8	I denounced you to police headquarters in Paris.
1:20.8	I suspected you wrongly, as it turns out, to be a notorious felon once known to me as
1:27.4	prisoner number 24601. A man named Jean Valjean, but you were wrong.
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