20 Questions On Deadline Podcast: Gary Oldman On ‘Slow Horses’ Season 3’s “Real Scorcher”; New Film ‘Oppenheimer’ & His Best Dinner Party Ever
deadline.comThis week’s guest is Gary Oldman. Right now, he’s starring in Apple TV+ series Slow Horses‘ as Jackson Lamb, leader of a group of MI5 rejects exiled to a rundown London building known as Slough House.
As Oldman describes it, “It’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets The Office.” Having just wrapped Season 3, the cast are headed into production on Season 4, and Oldman, an Oscar-winning 40-year veteran of stage and screen, says he’s loving playing Jackson Lamb—a flatulent, unwashed genius of espionage.
He also hints at what we can expect from Slow Horses‘ next season: He and co-star Saskia Reeves will have “a real scorcher of a scene”.
Next up, Oldman will reunite with Harry Truman in Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer During this chat, Oldman also recalls how he first began spontaneously practicing monologues at age 13, before working as a hospital porter “mopping up blood”.
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