Gary Oldman looked in desperate need of a large glass of whisky and a cigarette, as loved by his character Jackson Lamb, when filming the next series of Slow Horses.
A scene for the fourth instalment of the Apple+ adaptation of Mick Herron’s acclaimed spy thrillers had to be abandoned when a battered black cab transporting Oldman, 65, broke down in central London on Thursday (February 22).
The TV shoot had to be called off as a replacement taxi could not be found, leaving the star, who looked suitably dishevelled as the flatulent, heavy drinking and smoking spymaster Lamb, sheltering from the rain under an umbrella.
READ MORE: Click for more brilliant Daily Star showbiz stories
READ MORE: Click for more brilliant Daily Star TV stories
The fourth series of Slow Horses, which also stars Jack Lowden as River Cartwright and Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, is based on 2017 novel Spook Street, the fourth thriller about a group of failed MI5 agents exiled to Slough House, where the washed-up Lamb rules the roost. It is due to stream on Apple+ before the end of this year.
(Image: SplashNews.com)
The acting titan recently revealed that the lake scene in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the “most difficult thing” he ever did on camera due to the physical nature of it. Oldman played Harry’s uncle Sirius Black in the wizarding films.
He told Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast: “The most difficult thing I ever had to do, oddly enough, was… In one of the ‘Harry Potter’s, I had to lie by that lake. There was a frozen lake, and I’m sort of dead, and the soul is leaving my body, and then it appears….
(Image: SplashNews.com)
[On] Harry Potter, they would shoot – it took forever. It was slow! You’d be on a scene for a week when normally [a film crew] could shoot this in two days…. They built this lake inside the studio, and they cooled it down. They froze this lake, and I had to just lie there for a week — day in, day out, doing nothing.
(Image: Warner Bros)
Oldman also believed his performance in the Potter movies was “mediocre”. He continued; “I think my work is mediocre in it…. Maybe if I had read the books like Alan, if I had got ahead of the curve a bit, if I had known what’s coming, I honestly think I would’ve played it differently.”
Want all the biggest Showbiz and TV news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free Daily Star Showbiz newsletter
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
