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PIERCE BROSNAN Plays Adam Lang in The Ghost, a PM who took Britain into the war in Iraq, now under quasi-arrest in Cape Cod with his lawyer wife (played by Olivia Williams) I was in London doing the press for Mamma Mia! when I got the call from my agent saying: "[The director] Roman Polanski wants to see you for this movie The Ghost." I hopped on a train and had a wonderful lunch with Roman in Paris.

I asked him, "Am I doing Tony Blair?" And he said: "No, you're not playing Tony Blair. Don't worry about that." However, all roads and emblems lead to only one man -- and that is Tony Blair.

My task was to get to the heart of my character, so I began to play tapes of …