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London Spy: Ben Whishaw, dreamy lover/genius Ed Holcroft and sage Jim Broadbent
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2016, 04:27:15 pm ---Thank you, Uncle Willie. ;D
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Must we ride in this thing?
Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?
Dinah Lord: What's wrong?
Uncle Willie: Oh, nothing, nothing. My head just fell off, that's all.
:laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 05, 2016, 07:40:17 pm --- Must we ride in this thing?
Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?
Dinah Lord: What's wrong?
Uncle Willie: Oh, nothing, nothing. My head just fell off, that's all.
:laugh:
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:laugh:
Aloysius J. Gleek:
LONDONSPYREVIEWEXCERPTTOMROBSMITH
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13952429.Spies_like_us__As_BBC_drama_London_Spy_begins__Barry_Didcock_explores_our_abiding_fascination_with_spooks/
Spies like us
As BBC drama London Spy begins, Barry Didcock
explores our abiding fascination with spooks
Barry Didcock/Senior features writer/Saturday 7 November 2015/News
(EXCERPT)
"--London Spy, a five-part television drama for BBC Two. It stars Ben Whishaw – currently playing Q in Spectre, of course – as a hedonistic young gay man who becomes embroiled in a spy conspiracy when his closeted lover, an MI6 officer, is found dead in circumstances that are sordid and scandalous. Or appear to be, anyway: one of writer and series creator Tom Rob Smith's starting points was an old CIA manual he came across some years ago. It shows how to make a death look accidental by weaving it into the narrative of the victim's life.
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Smith, who is gay himself, is the author of four novels including Child 44, released as a film earlier this year with Tom Hardy playing hero Leo Demidov, a Soviet-era policeman tracking a serial killer. His most recent novel, The Farm, is a psychological thriller, and he started his career working on Channel 5 soap Family Affairs.
It's not an obvious CV for the writer of a series like London Spy but spy stories are in fact a sort of literary lodestone for Smith and behind his love of the genre are some very personal reasons.
“I haven't had the John le Carré life, but I have had a life of wondering how I am a spy on some level – and that connects with being gay and leading a double life in the sense that you have this persona,” he explains. “At school I was terrified. I couldn't even comprehend it [being gay] so my way of dealing with it was to say, 'I'll be a much more convincing liar if I can convince myself that it isn't true.' So on one level I shut that whole part of my brain down and I became a spy to myself. I was living a cover that I started to try to believe in order to make it more convincing. That's my reason for getting into spy stories.”
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Smith wrote the introduction to the Vintage edition of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love and has always liked Bond in particular.
“Bond is a real lover of life. Fleming is always going on about how much he loves his breakfasts, for example. It has become a cliché now, that Bond has great taste in things and perhaps we're overly familiar with it. But that does draw from an interest in energy: yes, he's a killer but he loves the world. He loves food, he loves drink, he loves women, he loves cars. That's why he's protecting it, as opposed to the people who despise the world on some level. I love that energy. It's very powerful, so I've always loved Bond.”
Aloysius J. Gleek:
LONDONSPYFANARTJO http://j000000.tumblr.com
5th March 2016 http://j000000.tumblr.com/post/140514225496/
Finally have some time for a little London spy doodle!!
I’ve finished all 70 pages rough sketch and put all the lines on it!
Start lining tomorrow!!
the most fun part of making a fanbook :D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 06, 2016, 06:16:04 am ---
Spies like us
As BBC drama London Spy begins, Barry Didcock
explores our abiding fascination with spooks
“I haven't had the John le Carré life, but I have had a life of wondering how I am a spy on some level – and that connects with being gay and leading a double life in the sense that you have this persona,” he explains. “At school I was terrified. I couldn't even comprehend it [being gay] so my way of dealing with it was to say, 'I'll be a much more convincing liar if I can convince myself that it isn't true.' So on one level I shut that whole part of my brain down and I became a spy to myself. I was living a cover that I started to try to believe in order to make it more convincing. That's my reason for getting into spy stories.”
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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 01, 2016, 03:36:38 am ---http://dujour.com/culture/edward-holcroft-london-spy/
Q&A:
Edward Holcroft
The London Spy star on how acting can be like--espionage
Written by Adam Rathe
Are you yourself at all spy-like? Would it be a viable option for a second career?
I’d like to think I could keep a secret. I think actors would make great spies, because there’s a certain element of loneliness in being an actor; it kind of can be a lonely occupation. You can be very isolated. Would I be a very good spy? I don’t know. Maybe I am one. Maybe I’m just not telling you.
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