LONDON – Gary Oldman is back on screens as the caustic Jackson Lamb for the fifth season of misfit spy thriller “Slow Horses,” as the critically acclaimed adaptation reaches Mick Herron’s book “London Rules.”

This week, the morning after he was invested with a knighthood by the Prince of Wales for services to drama on stage and screen, the Oscar-winning actor said Lamb is one of his all-time favorite roles.

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“Where would he be in the canon, as it were? I think up there with you know, ‘Darkest Hour,’ ‘Tinker Tailor,’" he said.

The star won his Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the 2017 film “Darkest Hour.” He was Oscar-nominated for 2011’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” and again for 2020's “Mank.”

Oldman has played Lamb — the shabby, brash, seemingly

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