Following Reid might have daunted lesser characters, but instead of trying to copy his predecessor, Neil altered Hamilton's approach, so that the players were more focused on their own playing style, rather than countering the tactics of the opposition.
Muller himself gave a glimpse into the challenges of making audiobooks when he told an interviewer, in 2001, "Playing one character is daunting enough, and that is usually all that is asked of an actor, but in a single voice recording you play them all.
Pattinson says he initially found the prospect of taking on the character to be extremely daunting.
"Creating that character was a bit daunting for me, so I changed the name to Alex," he says.
"It was a bit daunting having to play a real-life character who has been through all of this, and playing an Iranian without having ever gone to Iran," admits Bernal.
"It is always daunting when you take on these cherished, iconic characters and there'll be swaths of people for whom Jeeves and Wooster are their favourite books.
It is daunting enough to establish a critical beachhead on a character so well defended, in Wall's words, by "lucid comic anguish".
Her characters (usually female) are frequently assailed by daunting forces — horrible men, all too often; but also self-doubt, faint-heartedness, conventionality, and the limitations of bourgeois Australian society during the fifties and sixties.
One half expects a dead character to be dug up from within Todd Rosenthal's towering, daunting A-frame cutaway set.
