Category: Interviews
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Guy Pearce and Alexander Cary Video Interview: A Spy Among Friends
Why Alex Cary Cast Damian Lewis by Caitlin Tyrrell | Screen Rant | March 13, 2023 A Spy Among Friends is based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, which examines the true story of the most infamous double agent in the Cold War. The limited series, adapted for television by Alexander Cary,…
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A Spy Among Friends: Why Damian Lewis was Surprised by the True Story
Who Is Nick Elliott? by Roxy Simons | Newsweek| March 12, 2023 Damian Lewis found making A Spy Among Friends with Guy Pearce a “surprising” experience, he told Newsweek, because of the intricacies of the real story the MGM+ drama is based on. Lewis plays Nicholas Elliott, the best friend of Pearce’s Kim Philby, who…
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A Spy Among Friends Brings Cold War to New Generation
“Russia Has Never Been More Topical” by Stephen Schaefer | Boston Herald | March 12, 2023 “A Spy Among Friends,†streaming Sunday on MGM+, reflects on a key chapter in post-WWII espionage history when the Cambridge Five, a quintet of Cambridge University graduates, were exposed as Russian spies. The most notorious and most damaging, guilty…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis Takes the Spy Gadget Test
Spy Gadgets of the Cold War: Real or Fake? by MGM+Â | Twitter | March 8, 2023 Damian, Alex Cary, Anna Maxwell-Martin and Nick Murphy take the ultimate spy gadget test. Are these spy gadgets of the Cold War real or fake? Poison dart umbrella? Lipstick pistol? Poison cigarette? Camera clad pigeon? https://twitter.com/mgmplus/status/1633588583251714048?s=20 A Spy…
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VIDEO: Panel Discussion of A Spy Among Friends at New York Premiere
Damian Grapples with Friendship, Betrayal and Producing in MGM+ Drama by Charna Flam and Katie Reul | Variety | March 10, 2023 Following Sony’s “A Spy Among Friends†premiere and red carpet in New York, the cast and crew of “A Spy Among Friends†took to the stage to discuss the process of differentiating the…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on the Friendship at the Center of A Spy Among Friends
Who Would Make the Better Secret Agent? by Kate Hahn | TV Insider | March 10, 2023 Damian Lewis, who won an Emmy for playing Marine double agent Nicholas Brody on Homeland, is back in the spy game as a patriot in MGM+‘s A Spy Among Friends, a tense adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction bestseller.…
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In A Spy Among Friends, B.F.F. Betrayal at an International Level
A Twisty MGM+ Series by Roslyn Sulcas | New York Times | March 3, 2023 A twisty MGM+ series tells the story of Kim Philby, a British agent secretly working for the Soviet Union, and Nicholas Elliott, his closest friend. Stream beginning March 12. “Why wasn’t he in custody?†asks the MI5 officer Lily Thomas.…
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A Spy Among Friends Cast Previews the Real-Life “Brilliantly Interesting” Friendship
Preview: Riveting Cat-and-Mouse Conversations by Kate Hahn | TV Insider | February 24, 2023 If you learned your closest friend was a spy, would you help him evade justice? That’s the looming question in A Spy Among Friends, a slow-burn adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction bestseller about an infamous U.K. traitor. The limited series opens…