NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Primary Colors and The Sandman actor Adrian Lester says Dane Walter, the CIA handler he plays on the thriller, Ponies, is a secretive man who makes himself deliberately hard to read, even when he likes someone.
"He's intriguing. He's kind of a closed book and I wanted to know what was written on the pages. You get a glimpse of that later on and without the promise of that, I think it wouldn't have interested me so much," Lester, 57, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"I knew going in that [show-runner] David [Iserson] was playing with the idea of Dane seeing a psychiatrist and seeing the cracks underneath the surface. But you wouldn't see them otherwise," the British actor said.
"I felt that Dane was the kind of character you wouldn't even know what his true intentions are. He could look at you and smile and speak and you'd be thinking: 'Does he like me? Does he mean what he's saying? Is this real?' He has to have that about him. The ultimate spy."
The eight-episode series is streaming now on Peacock.
