The beautiful Countess is the daughter of Linda Arden and the sister of the late Mrs. Armstrong. Arbuthnot insists he did not. “You don’t know whether she’s living day for night,” says Byrne. Like her mother, she is an excellent actress, though it's the grease smudge on the Countess's Hungarian passport that ultimately gives her identity away to Poirot.

The wet label not the grease spot are not elaborated on, but things stick in the readers mind because they are out of character and, of course, because of the title of Chapter 4—"The Grease Spot on the Hungarian Passport." Poirot remembers a remark the Princess made during her interview. He is a fine-looking man wearing a well-cut English suit and sporting a not-so-English-looking long mustache. After this news, Poirot again goes into detective mode—he asks the Princess why she did not tell him this earlier. “This was in just amazing condition,” she says.
He would have been making a good living, but he would have been upper-middle class, not upper class, and so would dress accordingly.”During her lengthy research phase, Byrne learned that those in the 1930s had far less clothing than contemporary people—and much of it was formal. Although the only real suspicious finding against the Count and Countess Andrenyi is a wet luggage label and a grease spot on the Countess' passport, both are quite out of character for the prim and proper Count and beautiful and poised Countess. . Pilar Estravados (Penélope Cruz): She was the nurse and caretaker of Daisy. Poirot again asks the meaning of Mary's words at the Koya station, "Not now. Count Rudolph Andrenyi (Sergei Polunin): He is Helena’s husband and the brother-in-law of Sonia.

You’d struggle to buy a piece of silk for that price.”Costume designer Alexandra Byrne on outfitting a train filled with stars, including Michelle Pfeiffer and Judi Dench.From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter. Chapters 4–6 begin the final decent to denouement in Chapter 9. She takes barbital to rest during the day, and spends most of her time trying to avoid life. She is right handed as well. But once on the train, she’d be in a pajama suit with a gauze robe. Helena claims she never laid a hand against Ratchett, she never left her compartment. Poirot asks Helena about Daisy's nurse. Count and Countess Andrenyi. As soon as he sits down, Poirot asks him about the pipe cleaners found in Ratchett's cabin. Arbuthnot says he did not drop them in Ratchett's compartment; he never even spoke to the man. “Because pajama suits were kind of an American leisure wear for the day. It’s all information that helps to pin down the character.”“Because Judi Dench is so amazing, I didn't want to overdress or over-embellish her,” says Byrne. I came across some fantastic pictures of men doing their gardening in suits.”Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen and Johnny Depp as Edward RatchettByrne and her team made nearly all of the costumes for The designer prefers not to spend much time sketching, instead opting for mood boards and trying garments on. .

She tells Poirot that she tried to conceal her identity because she has the greatest motive of any of the passengers to murder Ratchett because she was intimately involved with the Armstrong family. “It was beginning to be a thing in America, but in England, there was no such thing as, say, a tracksuit. Poirot triumphantly hands the Princess her handkerchief, his assumptions were right. However, Poirot discovers that she is Helena Goldberg. The Evidence of the Count and Countess Andrenyi.

This could be a possible motive to be involved in the murder. Poirot seems to know all of the answers to the questions he asks Colonel Arbuthnot. Murder On The Orient Express | Rudolph and Helena Count and Countess Andrenyi – Made For Loving You Attic Of The Art. Afterwards, she married the Count and became Countess Helena Andrenyi. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Neither the Count nor the Countess seems the type to spill things on their luggage or eat hamburgers atop their passports. The more answers he gets right, the better he looks. The "unraveling" of Chapter 4, revealing the true identity of Countess Andrenyi, isn't too surprising. At this point, the reader still isn't quite sure how much Poirot knows. This is a new finding, a discovery, but not a surprise.In Chapter 6, there are fewer discoveries. Poirot isn't so sure; he thinks the Count may be telling the truth—his wife, Countess Andrenyi, might be innocent. This is not to say, of course, this is the only reason that Poirot continues the investigation: like all good detectives he must fully, thoroughly prove his case.

“We felt that his vanity was not so much a peacock vanity,” she explains, “but a vanity of precision.”There’s a sequence in which the detective insists upon eating only perfectly sized boiled eggs; Byrne used that same “slightly O.C.D., perfectionist streak veering slightly into the world of the luxurious” when dreaming up his outfits. There is a balanced mix of detection and discovery in this chapter.

The audience knows that something is suspicious about the Countess. Poirot knows that the conversation between Debenham and Arbuthnot was about Ratchett, but still wants to ask Arbuthnot and Debenham about it.