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Why I donned the iconic spectacles
JOE COLE on taking on Michael Caine’s legacy in the new adaptation of TheIpcress File
Top to bottom: The all-new Harry Palmer (Joe Cole); Lucy Boynton as Jean with Harry in a scene filmed in Croatia. Specs appeal; The actor with director James Watkins. Right: His name is Michael Caine.
FEW SPY-THRILLER heroes have captured the imagination like Harry Palmer. Made legend by Michael Caine in five screen adaptations of Len Deighton’s espionage novels — including, most famously, the 1965 movie The Ipcress File — it now falls to Gangs Of London actor Joe Cole to reinvent the ‘working man’s James Bond’. And Cole is armed not just with a gun, but also with those signature black-framed glasses, worn by Caine with such élan in the movies.