#rupert-graves

On PBS’s Sherlock, London detective Greg Lestrade might understandably feel a bit powerless when super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes is around. But the man who plays Lestrade, Rupert Graves, was more than happy to demonstrate his favorite superpower when he visited Yahoo TV at Comic-Con.

In the video above, Graves spins our Wheel of Comic-Con and lands on Charades, where he has to act out the superpower he’d most like to have without saying a word. Graves instantly dashes off-set — invisibility, we reckon. And he throws in a perfectly executed pratfall for good measure. 

Plus, Graves drops some facial-hair spoilers about Sherlock’s upcoming special, which finds Sherlock, Watson, and Lestrade back in 1895 Victorian England — he says he’ll have “two big bushes on the side of my face” — and compliments the “extremely well-behaved” Sherlock fans he’s run into at events and conventions over the years. “I come from theater, and a lot of the great thing is that connection with the audience, which you never have in film or TV,” he says. “But in these kind of places, in a kind of strange way, you do.”