Gary Oldman On ‘Slow Horses’ Finale, Retirement, Peter Falk, & Why He Loves TV

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Slow Horses season finale. EXCLUSIVE: “You know, to be able to sort of wrap it all up playing Jackson Lamb, I would consider myself very honored and very lucky to be able to do that,” says Gary Oldman of his disheveled Slow Horses role and the potential end of his long and acclaimed acting career. “I would never say never,” the Oscar winner added of making AppleTV+’s adaption of Mick Herron’s MI5 novels his swan song.Having already filmed a second Dead Lions season, based on Herron’s 2013 book, the six-episode Will Smith (not that one) adapted Slow Horses came to a somewhat triumphant end today with the James Hawes helmed “Follies.” Kristin Scott Thomas’s MI5 Deputy Director Diana Taverner escaped the mess and horrors of her false flag operation kidnapping the British nephew of a top Pakistan intelligence official thanks to Oldman’s Lamb, his gaggle of self-described “losers,” and a well thrown rock from the nearly beheaded Hassan Ahmed (Antonio Aakeel).Still with much unfinished business and exiled to the hinterlands of Slough House, the very well-connected River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) received some seasoned advice from his Jonathan Pryce portrayed grandfather of the intricacies of spy craft office politics.Along with a glimpse at Oldman and Pryce’s characters past, that advise that plays out in the Dead Lions teaser that played at the end of the Slow Horses finale.

A glimpse at the next installment, expected to debut later this year, that finds that Cold War past coming barreling into the present.With all that, Oldman chatted with me about the end of Slow Horses, the reunion with his Darkest Hour co-star, the coming Dead Lions and his new(ish) found love of the