India, March 12 -- Actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin took on the role of the iconic consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the recently released web series Young Sherlock. The show has been getting a lot of love from the audience, especially for the casting of Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes, and the series creator Matthew Parkhill informs us that the actor was actually the first person to have auditioned for the role.

He tells us, "Guy Ritchie (co-creator) had worked with Hero on a movie called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. So he knew him already but Hero was the first person to audition for the role. I remember, when we did his audition, he was on holiday in Thailand and he did a Zoom call f...