Did you know the author Mick Heron and his literary series before The Slow Horse Game?
Gary Oldman (Jackson Lamb): I only discovered his existence with the series. When I was told about the project, I had a discussion about the content of the TV series, the character I was going to play, and in this case I was also told about the books. Only then did I learn who Mick Heron is.
Jack Lowden (River Cartwright): I’ve never heard of it, which is a shame to me. But as soon as I joined the project, I discovered this world born of Mickey’s fantasy, which is absolutely glorious.
Christine Scott Thomas (Diana Taverner): Not at all. I’m not a big fan of spy stories. But when I got the script for the show, I thought it was absolutely brilliant and I also found that Mick Heron has a lot of fans. Both women and men in my environment are obsessed with work and know novels well. His books evoke a cult of readers.

How is Slow Horses different from previous spy movies and series?
Gary Oldman: To some extent, Mick Heron’s novels are in the past of John Le CarrĂ©’s books. But where Le Carre’s novels have a very dry tone, in the serious sense of the word, Mick Land’s novels have a sense of their subversive humor. We do not find this kind of humor in books written by John Le CarrĂ©. This is a spy story, but with many flawed characters. And that’s what I think sets it apart from other stories in the genre. I liked the fact that the characters continue the story forward and not the story as it usually happens in spy stories.
Saskia Reeves (at Catherine Stand): Messy, dirty, chaotic, and there are characters covering up. (Laughs) Gary Oldman is among the actors, so we expect a prestigious spy series and in fact the opposite.
Kristin Scott Thomas: That’s something very English, this way of doing humor all of a sudden. We English people love to laugh at ourselves and that’s all in the title of the series (Slow Horses, which can be described as the “lame horses” editor’s note). They are spies, losers and have a lot of humor about their condition, which is really unique to English culture.

Can we qualify Slow Horses as a serial unlike James Bond?
Gary Oldman: Yes, absolutely, Jackson Lamb has absolutely nothing to do with James Bond.
Jack Lowden: You can not say he is a spy who acts in the interests of the country and the Queen (laughs).
Gary Oldman: True, this is indeed the end of the Secret Service. Or at least directly, the MI-5 lead hole. There is a fantastic aspect to espionage and the secret service to be an expensive hotel, the Slough Houses section would be a kitchen where everyone yells at each other. We encounter the same division of social classes as in Downton Abbey. (Laughs)
Source: allocine

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