Apple TV‘s Slow Horses is into its fifth season and with two more on the way, this spy thriller ain’t going anywhere.
Gary Oldman, who plays odious lead Jackson Lamb in the smash series, pondered why it has been so successful this morning on the BBC’s Today program.
For Oldman, Slow Horses has something that other spy thrillers may be lacking.
“This is ordinary people doing heroic things,” he said. “I think [audiences] have a connection to it rather than being removed if you’re watching say The Bourne Identity or Bond, with their casinos and tuxedos. These are people having problems with their marriage and alcoholic issues or going through a divorce or only seeing their kids at the weekend, and they go to the laundrette and do these things that we can relate to.”
Oldman added that Mick Herron, who writes the novels the show is based on, “gives you a world that we’re very familiar with but turns it on its head and that’s something we can recognize.”
“That’s the appeal,” he added.
Slow Horses Season 5 is airing weekly at present and one of Apple TV’s biggest hits is currently commissioned up until Season 7. The show has made household names of the likes of Jack Lowden and has won numerous awards across its three-and-a-half-year run. It follows spies in Slough House, a banishment room for MI5 service rejects.
Oldman was speaking to Today following the announcement that he will return to the stage after a decade to star in and direct a version of Krapp’s Last Tape, celebrating the Royal Court Theatre‘s 70th anniversary.
“This is where I’ve started,” he said of the Royal Court, with which he has a four-decades long relationship. “It feels like a homecoming. I didn’t engineer any of this career and I was lucky earlier on in my career.”
Oldman was knighted by King Charles III earlier this year, a decision that left him “gobsmacked,” he told us exclusively in the wake of the event.
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