She/her, late 30s, UK Spectator of various fandoms over the years. You’ll find all of them and more stuff I like here, in no order whatsoever. Apologies for any whiplash. ~ small_creature, GoldStandardFcukUp and ForTheSakeOfConvenience on AO3
All Creatures Great and Small (2020-) as small_creature on AO3 — listed in this ACGAS post
Slow Horses (2022-) as GoldStandardFcukUp on AO3 — listed on this Slow Horses post
For All Mankind (2019-) as ForTheSakeOfConvenience on AO3 — listed in this FAM post
General warning for spoilers and canon non-compliance throughout, and I’m super flaky about updates. Sorry, it’s just who I am as a person at this stage. 🤷♀️
With five seasons aired and two more in the can, the Oscar winner has hit his stride as dissolute spymaster Jackson Lamb. 'Murderous' diet n
Its fifth season aired in the fall. Two more seasons are in the can. And as author Mick Herron continues to write new books in the Slough House series, there’s no immediate end in sight.
“I mean, if I go to Book 10, 11 or 12, I’ll have to be in a walker,” Oldman jokes. “They’ll have to get a stair lift.”
He’s still sporting the facial scruff we associate with “Slow Horses’” unkempt master spy, Jackson Lamb, and as he noted last year at a SAG-AFTRA Foundation event I moderated, he still carries a few extra pounds around the midsection, the consequence of having to portray Lamb’s greasy, takeaway-container diet onscreen.
“I hadn’t seen Gary — I’d seen him on the telly — and it happened that we were filming around the same time, and I went into the makeup trailer and I [said], ‘Bloody hell!’” jokes Oldman’s “Slow Horses” co-star, Jonathan Pryce. “I thought he had a fat suit on. I didn’t realize his dedication to his craft.”
“You have to realize it’s five seasons, and it’s murderous,” Oldman answers. “It’s French fries and hot dogs and hamburgers and ice cream. It’s disgusting, isn’t it?”
The menu hasn’t changed, and neither has Lamb, still cynical and lazy, but also brilliant when he puts his mind to it, abrasive and cruel to his team, but also loyal and protective of the “losers” in his charge. Yes, outwardly, Lamb is, as Herron writes, a “sentient grease stain,” but Oldman believes he possesses a “strong moral and ethical compass.”
Over the years, Oldman has compiled what he calls a “small bible,” a journal of things that he believes may have happened to Lamb that aren’t found in Herron’s books. In fact, the most memorable scene in Season 5, where Lamb recalls a harrowing story of one of his “joes” being tortured by the East German secret police, alongside a pregnant woman, wasn’t in the book. Lamb later insists he made the whole thing up, though we learn at least some of what he said was true in the season finale.
“When you do something like that, I have to decide whether it’s true or false and then just play the scene with enough sincerity,” Oldman says. “Remember, Lamb’s a spy and a very good liar. The thing that struck me about it came at the very end. He says, ‘Well, they never got any information out of him. They wanted a name. But he never knew the f— name.’ That always struck me as an honest declamation.”
Oldman loves returning to “Slow Horses” every year and says that as long as Apple is willing to “keep writing those checks, I’m not ready to hang up my dirty raincoat just yet.”
Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.
Everyone say mean things about him.
Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:
His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid
He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times
He dies and gets resurrected
His wife gets possessed
He fails to save her and she dies in his arms
He dies and gets resurrected again
He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum
He dies and gets resurrected again
His ex gets possessed
He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation
He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped
'pierre balmain "corset" evening dress in blue taffetta + gray-green velvet, c. 1951' in fifty years of fashion: new look to now - valerie steele (1997)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jackson Lamb/Catherine Standish, Shirley Dander & Catherine Standish
Characters: Jackson Lamb (Slow Horses), Catherine Standish, Shirley Dander
Additional Tags: canon typical violence off screen, Yearning, the yearning is for real, shirley would punch the moon if it bothered catherine, jackson would give her a boost, lambdish - Freeform, No Beta, we die like redacted
Summary:
“He has never put a hand on me.”
(His hands had never been unsafe
to her.)
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