VIDEO: Bridge of Spies star Mark Rylance says playing a spy is not too different from acting

Mark Rylance didn’t have far to look for inspiration for his part in a Cold War thriller, says Susan Griffin

IN HIS latest film, Bridge Of Spies, Mark Rylance plays Rudolf Abel, a Soviet agent arrested in America in the early stages of the Cold War. Rylance believes there are many similarities between the people who occupy the worlds of acting and espionage.