Gary Oldman on the ‘Pleasure’ of Playing ‘Slow Horses’ Spy Jackson Lamb: ‘A Man Who Has Single-Handedly Lowered the Public’s Expectation of Personal Hygiene’

Gary Oldman received the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Global Icon Award on Wednesday and, unsurprisingly, spent much of the time in an on-stage conversation discussing his most famous — and current — TV character. “For the last six years, I’ve had the pleasure of inhabiting Jackson Lamb, a man who has single-handedly lowere

Gary Oldman has argued that one of the secrets of the success of Slow Horses is that audiences don’t have to wait for years between seasons. Amid growing viewer discontent over interregnums between seasons, Oldman said the Slow Horses team works hard to “keep the momentum of the show going.” When the next season of…