00:01I'm retired.
00:04There's a mole.
00:07Right at the top of the circus.
00:10I've been dying to work with Gary for a long time.
00:13And, as I say, we've never had the opportunity
00:16because he's doing that and I'm doing this and so on and so forth.
00:19And this came up and I was really thrilled.
00:21I didn't consider him as my lackey.
00:24Well, I suppose in a sense he was at the beginning,
00:26but I don't think about it.
00:28Look, I've been dying to work with Gary for a long time.
00:31What's more, all of that was totally substantiated
00:33because he was blistering, I think, in this film.
00:38I need you to do something.
00:39You have to assume they're watching.
00:41I think what Thomas Alfredson has managed to do
00:44is move something superbly from literature into cinema.
00:49And that's a really difficult thing to do
00:52and doesn't very often happen.
00:53One of the reasons, I think, that Gary is so wonderful
00:56is that he's been given the space in order to deal with the script.
01:03He's a fanatic, and the fanatic is always concealing a secret.
01:08I first got the feeling that I'd like to be an actor
01:12when I did a play at my prep school when I was nine years old.
01:16I played the girl in the bluebird.
01:19And I just knew that I was suffused with the feeling
01:21that I knew that I was in the right place.
01:22The only advice I could really offer is follow your instincts.
01:26Follow your instincts to the letter,
01:29and don't let anybody put you off.
01:30I needed to see why.
01:33There's a woman.
01:36I know who you are.
01:38She had information concerning a double agent.
01:41But what she told me was sensational.
01:48I suppose, really, when I first became really aware of Alec Guinness
01:55was when he played Fagin in Oliver Twist.
01:59And it dazzled me.
02:01I just thought it was the most wonderful creation
02:03that worked so superbly on screen.
02:06And he himself seemed to be able to create the image,
02:12which is what cinema is all about.
02:14Oh, Richard Burton?
02:15Well, of course.
02:16I mean, I got a long way with him.
02:17He's another one who's influenced, in a sense, on me,
02:19because I saw him playing Hamlet when I was 13
02:22at the Edinburgh Festival.
02:24The Assembly Rooms, and fantastic.
02:26Claire Bloom playing Ophelia.
02:28And it was a stunning performance.
02:31You've been the only thing standing between
02:32Moscow and the Third World War.
02:34Now's the time.
02:35I would ask all pirates to say,
02:38people that are interested in buying pirated stuff,
02:42to join us and say, look, we can't.
02:46If we do that, then the whole edifice
02:52is likely to be brought to the ground.
02:54The more that happens, the less money is received
02:59by the industry.
03:01And our backers are going to get less interested
03:05if they can't make money.
03:07And they're going to find out, eventually,
03:09that there isn't anything to pirate.
03:11All I want from you is one codename.
03:17Tinker.
03:19Tailor.
03:21Soldier.
03:24Spy.
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