As soon as Jack Lowden gets the scripts for each new season of Slow Horses, he rifles through them to see if his character gets out of it alive. “I’d imagine most of the cast do that,” he says. “Anything could happen.” Sure enough, the first three series of this Apple TV+ show, adapted from Mick Herron’s darkly funny thrillers about a bunch of disgraced MI5 spies working out of a dingy office in the City, has a fair few regulars die inglorious deaths along the way.
Yet even though Lowden, 34, plays the heroic central character River Cartwright, and he, Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are the only regulars whose names appear in the opening credits, he takes nothing for granted.
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