In The Seats With...Dominic Cooke and 'The Courier'

The spy game...can be a tricky one... On this episode we sit down with director Dominic Cooke to talk about 'The Courier'. The Courier is the true story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. We got the distinct pleasure to sit down with Dominic to talk about this true story, the spy game, why it draws audiences in and the magic that is Cumberbatch playing an everyman so darn well.