Should actors avoid working with children and animals? ‘I rode a few horses for Roots, and one I had just didn’t seem to like me.
Next he’ll be seen on the big screen as Roland in Fallen, a Twilight-esque supernatural romance that sees a high-school girl fall in love with an angel. ‘I love the show so much that I hesitated to be a part of it because I didn’t want to miss watching it as a viewer,’ he laughs. This autumn, he returns to our screens in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
Filmed on location in South Africa and Louisiana, Kirby’s role saw him battle extreme heat, rain and mosquitoes alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne. After appearing alongside Star Wars’ John Boyega in the 2012 gang drama My Murder, the 26-year-old landed the integral role of Gambian slave Kunta Kinte in the History Channel’s blockbuster remake of 1977’s Roots. At first they saw it as a hobby gone out of control.’Īs a child, Malachi Kirby was so shy his mother enrolled him in classes at the Battersea Arts Centre. How does your family deal with your fame? ‘My parents are both laywers, so this is a new world for all of us. There are some really dark moments in the film but when they would say “cut” she could get everyone laughing.’ At home in south London, he’s a Sally Hawkins super-fan who’s just wrapped on Old Boys, a big-screen reworking of the French classic play Cyrano de Bergerac, with Lawther playing an awkward teenager helping a friend seduce a crush. The film sees Lawther take the role of pioneering teenage boy Billy Bloom, who chooses to run for the title of Homecoming Queen at an American high school, with the help of his mother, played by Bette Midler. Having played a young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, you’ll soon see him in Freak Show, directed by Trudie Styler. Now the 21-year-old is making the silver screen his own. Every character they play is completely different.’Īlex Lawther has already conquered the stage with roles in David Hare’s public school-set hit South Downs, which debuted in 2011 at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and as the disruptive youth Jamie in 2014’s The Glass Supper at The Hampstead Theatre. 'Who do you admire? ‘Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep. ‘I’d love to say that I had lots of Burberry and Vivienne Westwood, but my wardrobe’s mostly Topshop. The role saw her don miniskirts and platforms but in real life she’s lowermaintenance. Next, she appears in ITV’s 1960s crime drama, Endeavour. Off screen, she loves hanging out in Covent Garden and listening to jazz with friends.
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‘I didn’t go to drama school but I’ve worked since I was 11,’ (her first professional role was in a commercial for Netflix). Playing the flirtatious daughter of long-running characters Karen ( Spooks’ Hermione Norris) and David (Robert Bathurst), it’s the big break she’s been waiting for ever since an agent spotted her, dressed in a fat suit, in a school production of The Mikado.
Meet Devon-born Ella Hunt, the ITV comedy’s 18-year-old star. With Cold Feet returning to screens this week, the old faces are back - but so are some (seriously talented) new ones. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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