{"id":80661,"date":"2023-03-11T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/would-damian-lewis-or-guy-pearce-make-the-better-secret-agent-video\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:30:29","slug":"would-damian-lewis-or-guy-pearce-make-the-better-secret-agent-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/would-damian-lewis-or-guy-pearce-make-the-better-secret-agent-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Damian Lewis or Guy Pearce Make the Better Secret Agent? (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-spy-among-friends.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/damian-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damian Lewis,<\/a> who received an Emmy for enjoying Marine double agent Nicholas Brody on <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/homeland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Homeland<\/em><\/a>, is again within the spy recreation as a patriot in <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/network\/mgm-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MGM+<\/a>\u2018s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/a-spy-among-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Spy Among Friends<\/a><\/em>, a tense adaptation of Ben Macintyre\u2019s nonfiction bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is a reserved British intelligence man, Nicholas Elliott, who discovers that his greatest buddy and colleague, the witty, charismatic Kim Philby (<a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/guy-pearce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Pearce<\/a>) is a traitor. The case, which broke within the early 60s after Philby had spied for 30 years, grew to become infamous within the U.Ok.<\/p>\n<p>When talking with the forged not too long ago, we requested which ones would make a greater undercover operative in actual life. Lewis enthusiastically endorsed Pearce, saying, \u201cI\u2019d be a terrible spy. Those moments in our lives when we\u2019ve had a little secrecy, it\u2019s kind of intoxicating, it\u2019s a little bit of fun, you go, \u2018that\u2019s really great, no one knows what I\u2019m doing, that\u2019s fantastic\u2019 and then after a while, it eats you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restricted collection opens in 1963 with Elliott being questioned by no-nonsense MI5-er Lily Thomas (<a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/anna-maxwell-martin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Maxwell Martin<\/a>, taking part in a composite character) in regards to the defection of Philby from a Beirut secure home \u2013 below Elliott\u2019s watch. Flashbacks present the boys\u2019s friendship, which started within the Thirties.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce\u2019s tackle his character, who \u201cspied in plain sight\u201d is that he was \u201ca sociopath.\u201d Yet, the actor says, \u201cI do think he feels guilt to some degree and regretted that he lost his friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above to listen to the actors break down their characters and share extra about this distinctive tackle the spy style which explores a detailed male friendship, and the deep damage that comes from betrayal inside a high-stakes recreation of cat and mouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Spy Among Friends<\/em>, Series Premiere, Sunday, March 12, MGM+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Damian Lewis, who received an Emmy for enjoying Marine double agent Nicholas Brody on Homeland, is again within the spy recreation as a patriot in MGM+\u2018s A Spy Among Friends, a tense adaptation of Ben Macintyre\u2019s nonfiction bestseller. Lewis is a reserved British intelligence man, Nicholas Elliott, who discovers that his greatest buddy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}