BTL Radio Show – 09/21/2026 with special guest GEOFFREY MOORE talking KNIGHTFALL and “The Old Man”

 

 

 

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 you’ll hear in this exclusive conversation, Geoffrey talks about the privilege of what he does and why, but there’s something more striking about him – his mindset and philosophy – both which come courtesy of his father.  The balance between privilege and responsibility runs throughout this conversation with Geoffrey about KNIGHTFALL, his return to substantial acting after years away from the camera, and the rather unexpected discovery that stepping back in front of one felt remarkably like coming home.

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.

At the center of it all is Ros, played by Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, a scientist holding the only key to a stolen briefcase containing a deadly man-made biological weapon.  On one side is her father, Charles Knight (Ian Ogilvy), a former MI5 spy catcher whose retirement is interrupted when Ros becomes a target. On the other is Ros’s boyfriend Hugh (Geoffrey Moore), a younger, cooler MI5 agent very much of the contemporary intelligence world. Ros stands between the two men personally and generationally, giving KNIGHTFALL an emotional dimension beyond simply stopping the bad guys before they get the deadly contents of that briefcase.

As you will see when you watch the movie, which is streaming now, Geoffrey has charisma to burn, with a vocal timbre and cadence that can be startlingly evocative of his father, Sir Roger Moore. Yet he possesses his own distinctly contemporary screen presence, making the character of Hugh feel entirely at home as the younger MI5 man.

A real gift in KNIGHTFALL is putting Moore opposite Ian Ogilvy which also gives the film a lovely bit of cinematic history without ever turning it into a stunt. Ogilvy famously succeeded Roger Moore as Simon Templar, starring in Return of the Saint after Moore’s tenure in The Saint. Now Ogilvy and Moore’s son inhabit two generations of the British intelligence world together.  The Saint and the son of a Saint.

Fortune wisely doesn’t beat us over the head with it. There are no winking Bond gags, no desperate attempts at pastiche, no gadgetry inserted merely to capitalize on the Moore name. KNIGHTFALL respects that heritage and then gets on with telling its own story.  And Geoffrey gets on with playing Hugh.

A fun and fascinating conversation as Geoffrey talks about returning to acting, working with producer Jonathan Sothcott, doing his own stunts AND love scenes, and so much more, not the least of which is a wonderfully warm remembrance of being on set with his father and the lessons he learned from him.

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

KNIGHTFALL is currently streaming on Prime Video, AppleTV, Plex and more.

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