It’s all part of this world that Tom has created where you aren’t quite certain of anything.

He’s a complicated person and there are parts of him that are revealed slowly over the course of the five hours. I also think that Danny has a few surprises up his sleeve. From there, the story follows Danny’s journey to try and understand what happened to his lover.Īt the beginning, Danny doesn’t know he is in a spy story: he doesn’t know he is in love with a spy, he doesn’t know anything about the world of spying, and he is in a world that is quite alien to him the rules of which he does not understand at all. Alex then dies in mysterious circumstances. The relationship mysteriously ends abruptly. Tell us a bit about your character, Dannyĭanny is the central character, who falls in love at the beginning of the story with Alex, and they have a very intense, deep connection. The vision that director Jakob Verbruggen has brought to it, the visual style and the energy I think is a defining quality of the series. It’s been wonderful to work on a really fantastic piece of writing, of new writing that’s not based on anything else. It’s unique and exciting because it happens so much in Danny’s head – it’s a very subjective story and all the more exciting for that I think. I’m amazed by how Tom Rob Smith has written a story for every single character that features in the drama, and there are many characters that Danny encounters along this journey. It creates its own version of that genre. I think it’s a fascinating story, a fascinating series, because although I think it is a thriller, it doesn’t really conform exactly to what you expect a thriller to do. It felt incredibly fresh and I didn’t know what on Earth was going to happen, or what sort of a story I was in even. Working Title/Joss BarrattActor Ben Whishaw discusses his new role as Danny – a “hedonistic romantic” who gets drawn into the dangerous world of British espionage in Tom Rob Smith’s new BBC Two spy drama London Spy.

London Spy by Tom Rob Smith