BEHIND THE LENS #537: Featuring Geoffrey Moore

I am thrilled to bring you this week's BEHIND THE LENS and this week's featured interview because we're talking with Moore. Geoffrey Moore.

There is an inevitability to Geoffrey Moore playing a British spy. He knows it. We know it. And when asked whether he had any trepidation about stepping into the role of MI5 agent Hugh in KNIGHTFALL given that his father happened to be Sir Roger Moore, Geoffrey doesn't hesitate. "No. Money is the answer." The laugh, the wit. That sums up Geoffrey Moore.

Witty, funny and self-deprecating, Moore is fully aware of the enormous cinematic elephant standing in the room with him—and entirely unwilling to spend the next half hour genuflecting before it. His is a particularly British wit: quick, dry and responsive, catching an idea in midair and tossing it back with an unexpected spin. And you'll hear for yourselves, when the laughter subsides, Geoffrey gets to the more thoughtful truth.

As for KNIGHTFALL, there is something wonderfully refreshing about an espionage thriller that remembers the most important weapon in a spy's arsenal is his brain.

Lean, character-driven, and refreshingly free of gadgetry and bombast, KNIGHTFALL puts intelligence before action and then makes that action count. Produced by Jonathan Sothcott, director Ben Fortune and writers Robert Dunn, James Smy, and Bob Schultz deliver a grounded British spy thriller in which moves and countermoves matter, relationships carry consequences, and a chessboard proves every bit as important to understanding the film as a gun. And Geoffrey Moore is one part of a very interesting puzzle.

One of the most enjoyable and lovely conversations I've had over the decades, I think you'll enjoy this one too.