British actor Gary Oldman (“Mank“) won a long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for the Winston Churchill biopic “Darkest Hour” and recently revealed he’ll have a small roll in Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer,” reuniting with the “Dark Knight” trilogy director. Oldman is now getting some buzz for his spy series “Slow Horses” which can be seen exclusively on Apple TV+ and is teasing potentially stepping away from acting in a new interview.
The actor recently spoke with Deadline and the actor brought up the idea of possible retirement, ending his career with “Slow Horses.”
“I could see myself playing Jackson [Lamb] for the next how many years, yeah. Absolutely,” Oldman said. “I mean, for those that love the books and that were Mick Herron devotees as it were, he is already an iconic character. So, if it were to go out with a bang, I mean, 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. I would never say never,” the Oscar-winner said of his potentially ending his acting career.
Oldman added that something else might come around to change his mind but he is enjoying the family setting of his television projects and he sounds happy with sticking around for the series if the demand is there.
“There’s always something that may come in, and you know, get the taste buds going but I’d be thrilled and honored to play him for the foreseeable future. And not only that, you often see actors who are in a series and they talk about a sort of sense of family and you do get that in a movie or a play. The actors and the crew on both ‘Slow Horses’ and ‘Dead Lions‘ have been wonderful, and should we come back, it really is reconnecting with your family.”