{"id":470569,"date":"2026-06-10T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:34:12","slug":"hugh-laurie-and-joe-alwyn-join-matthew-macfadyen-in-legacy-of-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470569\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie and Joe Alwyn Join Matthew Macfadyen in &#8216;Legacy of Spies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hugh-laurie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hugh-laurie_1\" data-tag=\"hugh-laurie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Laurie<\/a> (The Night Manager, House) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/joe-alwyn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-alwyn_1\" data-tag=\"joe-alwyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Alwyn<\/a> (The Brutalist, The Favourite) have joined Matthew Macfadyen, Charlie Hunnam and Daniel Br\u00fchl in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc_1\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mgm-3\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mgm-3_1\" data-tag=\"mgm-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MGM+<\/a>\u2018s John le Carr\u00e9 adaptation Legacy of Spies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdapted from le Carr\u00e9\u2019s global bestseller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and drawing on material from his 2017 novel A Legacy of Spies, the eight-part drama is written by Stephen Cornwell and Clarissa Ingram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe show will mark spymaster George Smiley\u2019s long-anticipated return to television with Macfadyen in the iconic role and Hunnam as the embattled, world-weary agent-runner and field operative, Alec Leamas. Laurie will play Control, the fiendish and commanding head of The Circus, Smiley\u2019s morally fickle superior, known only by his code name. Alwyn joins as Jim Prideaux, a charismatic Circus veteran and roguish scalp hunter, whose off-book exploits in the field \u201cruffle a few feathers back in London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFrom The Ink Factory, the espionage thriller will also star Anjana Vasan as Connie Sachs (We Are Lady Parts, Black Mirror: Demon 79) with Charlotte Ritchie (You, Ghosts) stepping into the role of Ann Smiley and Lee Ross (Andor, White Gold) as Inspector Oliver Mendel. James McArdle (Mare of Easttown, Playing Nice), John Dagleish (Sexy Beast, 3 Body Problem) and Goran Bogdan (The Last Panthers, Father) join The Circus as Percy Alleline, Roy Bland and Toby Esterhase respectively, with Adam Hugill (Sherwood, Dear England) as Fawn, Smiley\u2019s hardman babysitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThey join the previously announced Br\u00fchl as Josef Fiedler, Devrim Lingnau Islamo\u011flu as Doris Quinz, Agnes O\u2019Casey as Liz Gold, Felix Kammerer as Hans-Dieter Mundt, Dan Stevens as Bill Haydon, Jake Dunn as Peter Guillam, Safia Oakley-Green as Molly Gibson, Ariyon Bakare as Cy Aflon, Patrick G\u00fcldenberg as Dr Karl Riemick, Volker Bruch as Emmanuel Rapp and Saskia Rosendahl as Lotte Gamp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMichael Lennox is the lead director and executive producer on the series. Claudia Llosa has come on board as the second block director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLegacy of Spies was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama. It will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the U.K. and on MGM+ in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie (The Night Manager, House) and Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist, The Favourite) have joined Matthew Macfadyen, Charlie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2974,430,156,16695,1019,77726,150875,111,139,69,2025],"class_list":["post-470569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bbc","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hugh-laurie","tag-international","tag-joe-alwyn","tag-mgm","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}