John Wilson

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3,430 appearances 25 recordings 9 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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This Cultural Life · Kristin Scott Thomas · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

That was so stupid.

I shot myself in the foot.

But, you know, as I say, it's a balance between real life and pretend life.

So I've always been in a very lucky, but also I've worked very hard to get there, of being able to think, no, I don't want to go off and do that.

And have I done this role before?

Yes, don't do it.

And that's happening a lot at the moment.

What was the appeal of playing the spy boss, Diana Tavener, in Slow Horses?

I mean, it looks like a lot of fun, doesn't it?

Yeah.

I hadn't worked on film for four years, and Joe Wright persuaded me to go in and do, in The Darkest Hour, a play opposite Gary Oldman, and that's an extraordinary experience.

This is the Churchill... The Churchill, yeah, yeah.

So working with Gary was just so exciting.

And I loved it so much that when this arrived, by then I was living in England and everyone around me was talking about McHeron, McHeron, McHeron, McHeron.

And so I, you know, got became intrigued.

And then Diana Tavenner.

Oh, yeah, I do that standing on my head.

Slightly harder than that.

Service standing order.

Whatever the hell it is.

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