Douglas Urbanski on talking Slow Horses with writer Will Smith and author Mick Herron

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00:00And early on in the shooting of season one

00:02I remember will was in the trailer and we were he and I were having this talk and we we said

00:08Lamb is the smartest person in the room, isn't he?

00:11Always it hadn't ever been set out loud and we said he's always a step ahead of everyone else

00:16Isn't he and had not been set out loud and it was a good thing for will and I to talk about because that informs

00:21How you're gonna shoot it? How are you gonna cast it? How you gonna even be writing it if you make this sort of

00:26Dogmatic decision. He's the smartest one in the room. He's ahead of everyone else

00:29So Mick came by the set the following week and I said Mick I've got to ask you we've decided that he's the smartest man

00:35In the room and he's ahead of everyone else. Did we get it? Right?

00:37And he said yes, and that was that was big coming from Mick. Yeah. Yeah, cuz he had never said it in the books

00:43But it was clearly the case