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Breaking Baz: ‘Slow Horses’ Star Ruth Bradley Reveals How Gary Oldman’s ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Captivated Her Childhood Imagination; Years Later She’s Acting Alongside The Oscar Winner
’Slow Horses’ Star Ruth Bradley’s Career Was Inspired By Gary Oldman Playing Dracula.
That was Bradley’s prelude into the world of Slow Horses and Jackson Lamb, the Falstaffian slob who came in from the cold to oversee intelligence service agents exiled to serve out of harm’s way — they think — in a dilapidated dwelling known as Slough House. Bradley, at that point, had vaguely heard of Mick Herron ’s series of award-winning thrillers upon which the show is based, but she hadn’t then seen any of the Apple TV+ drama starring Gary Oldman as the disheveled Lamb and Kristin Scott-Thomas as Diana ‘Lady Di’ Taverner, his duplicitous nemesis over at MI5 headquarters. Bradley moved from her native Dublin to try her luck in London, winning her first major role, when she was barely 21, in director Simone North’s 2009 Australian crime movie Her Skin, where she had to gain something like 56 pounds to portray real-life Caroline Reid Robertson, who was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl.
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