Word: walk-on
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...addition to the Crimson's veterans, the team also has at least two promising recruits, as well as some new walk-on talent...
...addition to the Crimson's veterans, the team also has at least two promising recruits, as well as some new walk-on talent...
...their apparel for filthy costumes. "They had me wear clothes that had so much dirt on them, it took a couple of days to get it out from under my nails," complains James Moffatt, one of the homeless actors. The filmmakers say they will mainly hire actors for future walk-on parts. Explains a casting staff member: "When the director asks for street people and bag people, he wants a certain look...
Another of the book's blessings is the reappearance of George Smiley, who has not been seen in Le Carre's fiction since Smiley's People (1980). In what is basically a walk-on or, in this case, a sit-down role, Smiley retains his enigmatic, nondescript power. At the after-dinner session, introduced by Ned as a "legend of the Service," Smiley tells the expectant students, "Oh, I don't think I'm a legend at all. I think I'm just a rather fat old man wedged between the pudding and the port." Not true. Ned paraphrases...
...nation's recent struggles. Was he a Moscow stooge back in 1981 or a Polish patriot making an unpopular move to prevent the bloodbath of a Soviet invasion? Was he as pivotal a political player during the 1980s as trade-union leader Lech Walesa, or was his just a walk-on part that will quickly fade in memory...