Sunday, 18th April 2021 at 9:00 am Leonardo da Vinci is the second artist that Aidan Turner has portrayed on screen after his turn as Dante Gabriel Rossetti in BBC2’s Desperate Romantics 12 years ago. But the actor has a confession. “I can’t draw,” he winces sheepishly. Advertisement Artistic skill aside, Turner’s role in Amazon Prime’s Leonardo is an easy sell for fans of his previous eponymous lead role in Poldark. Yes, after a two-year absence from our screens, the 37-year-old is back, and in (and sometimes out of) a well-fitting period costume. As that well-known Leonardo equation goes: “Billowy shirt + gripping plot + Aidan Turner as lead = successful period drama”.