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The actor on her delight about being in Slow Horses, what she learned from watching her father on stage and the wisdom of David BowieThe actor Saskia Reeves was born in London in 1961; her father Peter Reeves was an actor, singer and lyricist. Since her 1990 film debut in Antonia and Jane, opposite Imelda Staunton, she has worked extensively on stage and screen. Her television credits include Luther, Spooks, Wolf Hall and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune. This month she stars in both the fourth series of the fabulously seedy London spy drama Slow Horses on AppleTV+, in which she plays office administrator and recovering alcoholic Catherine Standish, and a film adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir of alcoholism and redemption, The Outrun, with Saoirse Ronan.I can’t remember a drama for which the phrase “eagerly awaited fourth series” feels more honestly appropriate than Slow Horses. Did you imagine it would be such a global hit?No, we got together in 2020 and then we had to deal with lockdown. I kept telling myself: don’t worry, they are going to make this happen, because Gary Oldman’s in it, and Kristin Scott Thomas is in it. They weren’t going to let that go. Continue reading...