![]() ![]() Side note: Indira Varma is a beautiful woman, but they couldnt have picked less flattering photo of her for this article. Things have only changed for the worse a little bit. ‘Game Of Thrones’ Stars Indira Varma & Conleth Hill Join Spy-Thriller ‘Official Secrets’. I think it’s great for people to see who were around at the time of the actual events, to get a reminder of how corrupt Bush and (Tony) Blair were. A festival highlight at Sundance this year, the film hit cinemas in the U.S. ![]() Basically, it’s a golden ensemble cast of some of the best British talents out there, lead by the incomparable Keira Knightley. She will appear as Shami Chakrabarti in the thriller feature Official Secrets with Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode and Matt Smith. There’s also Rhys Ifans as hotheaded hot-shot journalist Ed Vuillamy. Ralph Fiennes gives a masterful performance as Gun’s attorney, Ben Emmerson. Matthew Goode and Matt Smith are great as Peter Beaumont and Martin Bright respectively. The ensemble cast of this film is excellent, but I particularly enjoy Conleith Hill as Roger Alton, it’s a bit of a cameo role but he steals every scene in which he’s present. Tala continued to serve as an Officer, but joined The Path, a network that aided enemies of the Empire, including fugitive Jedi. It illustrates the all-powerful machine that is government and how that machine can destroy whoever it wants pretty damn easily. Who is Tala Durith in Obi-Wan Kenobi When Tala joined the Empire, she believed in the ideals of the New Order, but when she realized what the Empire really stood for, it was too late. It also shows the occasional futility in these efforts as well. Official Secrets Review: Keira Knightley Leads Riveting Thriller Keira Knightley leads an all-star British cast in Official Secrets, a riveting, if not sometimes pedantic, political thriller. Official Secrets is an incredibly smart film that celebrates the whistleblowers of the world. This starts off a rollercoaster of events that eventually lead to Katherine Gun being investigated by the British government. The Observer at that time was in full support of a war, so the editor, Roger Alton (Conleith Hill) was not exactly enthused to have this memo in his possession but knew if the story weren’t presented by them, someone else would get it. who then passes it along to Martin Bright (Matt Smith) at The Observer. So she leaks the memo to an anti-war activist friend of hers who then passes it along to an anti-war journalist Yvonne Ridley (Hattie Morahan). Gun, both in real life and in the film, decides that she can’t leave this information private. It stated that via request of the NSA, the UK should join the US in efforts to essentially bully other countries in the UN to start the war in Iraq. ![]() While working for GCHQ in 2003, a disturbing memo went companywide via e-mail. Official Secrets is based on the true-life case of Katherine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters, a UK intelligence agency. “…via request of the NSA, the UK should join the US in efforts to essentially bully other countries in the UN to start the war in Iraq…” ![]()
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