Lashana Lynch also stars in the 10-episode thriller about a professional assassin and the intelligence officer chasing him, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel.

He’s played by Eddie Redmayne, whose boyishness initially seems at odds with the work of professional murder until you witness the dispassionate coldness with which his Jackal kills. As a man of unplaceable age with an affable yet unshowy manner, he can become anyone as and when required.

The actor stars in Peacock’s gripping 10-part adaptation of the 1971 bestseller about an assassin, who in this telling is hired to kill a tech billionaire.