Watch ‘Slow Horses’ star Gary Oldman narrate a Christmas poem for the real MI5

nme.com:

Slow Horses star Gary Oldman has narrated a Christmas poem for the MI5 – watch it below.For Christmas this year, the MI5 tapped Oldman to narrate a contemporary take on ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ for its social media channels.

Titled A Christmas Story from MI5, the clip depicts several agents (with their identities concealed) at work at their London headquarters as Oldman narrates in character as Slow Horses‘ Jackson Lamb.Oldman narrates as Lamb: “’Twas the night before Christmas when all through Thames House not a creature was stirring, just the click of a mouse.

Then footsteps on stairwells, then flickering screens, the clackety keyboards of a hundred machines. The hustle, the bustle, the hive of activity, not the typical scene of your Christmas nativity.”He continues: “So while people at home wrap last-minute gifts, the staff inside Thames will be changing their shifts.

From us all at 5, we wish you festive delight. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.”The MI5 wrote in their caption to accompany the video:“At MI5 this Christmas we’ve decided to forgo the traditional turkey in favour of some lamb – Jackson Lamb.