Back in April this year, whilst out promoting his leading role in the first season of Apple TV+ espionage series “Slow Horses,” Oscar-winner Gary Oldman discussed the idea of possible retirement.
Oldman stars in the series as Jackson Lamb, the slovenly and often drunk head of Slough House – an administrative purgatory for British Intelligence’s rejects.
At the time, the 64-year-old actor said that while something else might come around to change his mind, he plans to stick with the series if the demand is there and then call it a day after more than four decades of professional acting. He told Deadline at the time:
“Retirement is on the horizon. Yeah. I can see it… You know, to be able to sort of wrap it all up playing Jackson Lamb, I would consider myself very honored and very lucky to be able to do that”
Cut to seven months later and Oldman is once again talking up the series, which launches its second season next month. In the time since, Oldman hasn’t changed his tune and tells the Times of London this week:
“I’ve had an enviable career, but careers wane, and I do have other things that interest me outside of acting. When you’re young, you think you’re going to get ’round to doing all of them – read that book – then the years go by.
I’m 65 next year, 70 is around the corner. I don’t want to be active when I’m 80. I’d be very happy and honored and privileged to go out as Jackson Lamb – and then hang it up.”
Jack Lowden, Kristen Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Sophie Okonedo, and Saskia Reeves co-star in “Slow Horses,” which returns December 2nd with a double episode followed by a weekly run of the remaining four through January 6th next year.
The series has already scored a renewal for a third and fourth season as the production shoots two six-episode seasons back-to-back (each season based on one of the eight novels in the series).
