![]() ‘‘The ghost of Guinness just sort of loomed so large,’’ Oldman said of Sir Alec, who brilliantly played Smiley on television in a 1979 miniseries of ‘‘Tinker’’ and 1982’s ‘‘Smiley’s People.’’ Oldman spent a month mulling it over, and even once he had agreed, the actor had a moment of terror a week before shooting, wondering if he could pull it off. The filmmakers behind the big-screen adaptation of le Carre’s ‘‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’’ wanted Oldman to play Smiley so much that they offered him the role before he met with them to talk it over. LOS ANGELES - Gary Oldman agonized over whether he should tinker with British spymaster George Smiley, a character who is an institution to John le Carre’s readers and already had been played to perfection by Alec Guinness. ![]()
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