October 25, 2026 — 4:00pm

Jackson Lamb is the brilliant, slovenly head of an MI5 unit of misfits in the hit series Slow Horses. Tenzing Norgay is the spiritual sherpa who makes the first ascent of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in the new film Tenzing.

See-Saw Films’ founders Emile Sherman, left, and Iain Canning with images from its hit series Slow Horses and films Tenzing and Lion. Jamie Brown, See-Saw, Apple

While it’s hard to imagine two more contrasting characters on screen, they share the same DNA.

It’s also shared by Saroo Brierley, the Indian-Australian author who tracks down his birth mother in the hit film Lion , and Peter Gordon, the fey medical student who wants to protect his mother in the Oscar-winner The Power of the Dog .

They all feature in projects made by Australian-British production company See-Saw Films.…