He joined the cast of A Most Wanted Man as an extra in a bar scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman. During an MI6 party in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, he stood next to a man dressed as Lenin. Stephen King called le Carré a 'literary giant' and MI6 head Richard Moore paid tribute to the 'evocative' author.ĭespite his reclusive nature, le Carré was happy to appear on camera. Gary Oldman, star of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, said le Carré 'owned' the genre of the serious, complicated spy novel. Actors, writers and even MI6’s boss paid tribute to John le Carré following his death in December 2020. He was, as he once wrote, the spy who had come out of the woodwork and told how it really was. John le Carré was a paradox: evocative and nuanced, an insider in self-imposed exile, a man as fiendishly clever and breathtakingly ordinary as George Smiley.
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