![]() ![]() "I think the thing that most surprised me -and it dawned on me the more we shot, the more I read and just further into the story we went- is just how much it was clearly Nick Elliott that facilitated Philby's freedom each time. ![]() "John le Carré said you must write about the relationship between Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott, and everyone went 'who is Nick Elliott?' What's my next story? What should I write?'" "In fact, he tells a lovely story about how he was walking with John le Carré in a park in London and he says 'I've dried up. "None of us knew about Nicholas Elliott, including Ben," Lewis told Newsweek. The former remained largely in the background when news of Philby's deception as a Soviet spy was revealed to the world. MGM+īoth Lewis and Pearce were unaware of Elliott's part in Philby's tale, though he and Philby were both Secret Intelligence Service (now MI6) agents. Guy Pearce as Kim Philby, left, and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Elliott, right, in "A Spy Among Friends." The actors spoke to Newsweek about how surprising they found the true story behind the MGM+ drama. ![]()
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