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A Spy Among Friends: Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on Playing Secret Agents
Duplicitous Characters by Maggie Boccella | Collider | March 15, 2023 Imagine finding out your best friend of nearly thirty years had completely betrayed you and everyone else they loved, for the entirety of your friendship. That’s the concept behind MGM+’s newest thriller series, A Spy Among Friends, except the tensions are racketed to an…
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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 Places Damian Lewis in a Heady Spy Game
It’s a Role Lewis Plays Beautifully by Daniel D’Addario | Variety | March 12, 2023 The story of Kim Philby is perhaps too good to make up. The British spy, a double agent for Moscow, operated at the highest levels of the intelligence community; his ability to disseminate information to the Soviet Union, to which…
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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 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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Loyalty and Affection is Threatened in A Spy Among Friends
A Show That Makes You Question All Your Relationships by Mark Kennedy | Washington Post | March 10, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — A main character in “A Spy Among Friends†is one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious double agents. But you don’t need to know anything about him — or really about spying…