Eddie Redmayne, the star of Peacock's new spy drama The Day of the Jackal, chats with BGR about the show and his character.
“The more identities a man has,” John Le Carré wrote in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, “the more they express the person they conceal.” Leave it to the father of the modern spy thriller to articulate one of the central conceits of a new espionage thriller that’s just landed on Peacock — The Day of the Jackal, a 10-episode adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name in which a meticulous assassin is hired to kill French president Charles de Gaulle.
'The people that made this series are certainly, from my point of view, great lovers of Frederick Forsyth’s book and huge admirers of the Zinnemann movie,' Redmayne continues to me, referring to the 1973 feature film adaptation of the book by director Fred Zinnemann. 'In fact, I had an old VHS cassette of The Day of the Jackal -- it was one of those three or four movies that would be watched continuously in my household.
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