Who is the narrator in 'Operation Mincemeat'? Here's what you will have to know about the brilliant actor who appears in and narrates the film.

Spoiler alert: This article comprises spoilers for Operation Mincemeat.

Based on Ben Macintyre's 2010 best-seller, Operation Mincemeat, John Madden's new conflict drama revisits the undercover agent operation first drafted up by Ian Fleming, the creator, journalist, and James Bond writer who first joined the Royal Navy within the 1930s, and Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey, who is ceaselessly hailed because the source of inspiration at the back of James Bond's boss, "M," within the James Bond sequence.

'Operation Mincemeat' stars Rufus Wright and Colin Firth in the lead roles. Who is the narrator?

Based on a real story, Operation Mincemeat revolves around a military operation introduced in 1943. Operation Mincemeat used to be one of the vital entries on the so-called Trout Memo, a 54-item list credited to Ian Fleming and Rear Admiral Godfrey. Operation Mincemeat calls on military personnel to procure a corpse, put him into an officer's garments, and provide him with strategically-selected paperwork suggesting the allied powers have been heading to Greece and Sardinia — not Sicily. The trick labored.

Operation Mincemeat plays on the uncommon example where fiction meets real life. Dreamed up by Ian and Rear Admiral Godfrey, the trick helped the allied troops reach unparalleled luck. Operation Mincemeat is narrated by Johnny Flynn, the actor playing Ian Fleming within the movie.

"They took a fictional idea and tried their very best to make it into an idea that appeared to be absolutely real," John Madden told Los Angeles Times. "Which then was in danger of being exposed as a fiction and so on. The layers of that. Something immensely attractive about it was this whole thing about writing, about the creation of fiction, and how closely that is allied with espionage."

The James Bond series offer a fictive adaptation of Ian's lived stories as a naval intelligence officer. As such, Operation Mincemeat may also be taken as a film that looks on the fictive global of the James Bond collection from a tilted perspective. For example, James Bond's boss, "M" and "Q," the head of the Q Branch, each seem.

Johnny Flynn portrays Ian Fleming, Rear Admiral Godfrey's non-public assistant, in 'Operation Mincemeat.' He additionally narrates.

Johnny's name will likely strike a chord to avid enthusiasts of length dramas and sitcoms alike. Johnny earned his first breakthrough within the 2000s, portraying Josh Egan in Murder in Suburbia. Bigger opportunities soon followed, with Johnny portraying Toby in Brotherhood, Dylan in Lovesick, William Dobbin in Vanity Fair and Mr. Knightley in Emma.

In an interview with Evening Standard, Johnny mentioned what it was once like to play the real-life James Bond, how he prepared for Fleming's role, and what forms of relationships he had with James Fleet (who portrays Charles Fraser-Smith or "Q"), Jason Isaacs (who performs Rear Admiral Godfrey or "M") and the remainder of the cast.

"It was a lot of imagining who this person [Fleming] was," Johnny said. "[Fleming] wrote Bond as a sort of idealized version of himself. When you see what his experience was in the war, you realize [Bond] was kind of that, you see where his relationship to "M" [came from]. It was also really fun doing the scenes with the real-life 'Q' in the film, James Fleet."

Operation Mincemeat is to be had on Netflix now.

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