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Saskia Reeves: ‘Where else could you find yourself in a taxi between Jonathan Pryce and Gary Oldman?’ | Slow Horses
The actor on her delight about being in Slow Horses, what she learned from watching her father on stage and the wisdom of David Bowie
Beginning with your starring role in David Nicholls’s TV series Us, and now also your beautifully judged performance as the mother of Saoirse Ronan’s character in The Outrun, you seem to be having a great career moment. He had a long stage career – he starred in the hit musical comedy revue Pieces of Eight alongside Kenneth Williams and collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber – inevitably not always as successful as he hoped. Which is why it’s good to have the opportunity to play a woman who is struggling to have her voice heard, who disappears into the fabric of the building because her hair is grey, who isn’t regarded as her sexual self any more – and yet show her to be someone vital and important.
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