Gary Oldman On The Joys Of Playing “Flatulent Slob” Jackson Lamb In Apple TV+ Spy Drama ‘Slow Horses’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman has found “great joy” in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two.
Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Lank-haired Lamb plays the operative in charge of a host of lost causes exiled out of harms way to Slough House where they wind up defending the realm from harm.
Lamb looks shambolic in shabby raincoat, weather-proofed by beer stains and slops of Kung-pao chicken, and yet you can never underestimate him. ”I don’t know how nice Jackson is really,” he tells Deadline. “I think that rather than seeking a career in the spy world, the spy world finds you.
And so he is loyal and has a very strong sort of moral compass and is in a very questionable career in terms of morality and ethics.” “There’s a ruthlessness to him,” adds the actor of Lamb, who leapt from the pen of novelist Mick Herron.
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