The Picture Journal

Nick Hendrix

You appeared in the Tom Hardy Kray brothers film Legend. Growing up, what situations did you wish you had an identical twin for? School cross-country running. I’d have him hide out half way round the course and then at the right moment we’d switch. I’d only ever have to do half and the fresh legs would mean we’d almost certainly win. One of your early roles was in the series Black Mirror, the dystopian vision of technology’s intersection — and perversion of culture/ society. Without naming one that is specifically weaponized, what piece of technology or innovation do you think…

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Luke Pasqualino

If you had 25 years of human life that you could distribute to any number of deceased artists to give them more time (presumably to add more to their body of work) who would you bring back, and how many years would you allot to each? What a great question to start on. I have so many different answers for this question and I could be here for hours dedicating a year to each of my beloved artists, but the two that stand out are Amy Winehouse and Heath Ledger. I was, and still am a huge fan of their…

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Lucy Chappell

Who was your first favourite actor? Dakota Fanning. I watched Hide and Seek and War of the Worlds over and over when I was 12 and I remember thinking, “I want to do that’. Act twisted and run away from aliens. I wanted to experience those things. I made up a lot of my own stories when I was younger and would act them out by myself, but after watching her I realised you could do it on a much bigger scale, and it was a job. It was a done deal after that. What was the last book you…

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Paapa Essiedu

If you could trade all of your knowledge of Shakespeare’s works for the chance to experience reading/ performing Hamlet again for the first time, would you? I don’t profess to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Shakespeare anyway but there are few feelings that can match the excitement of performing Hamlet for the first time. It’s a strange mix of terror and exhilaration. Wouldn’t swap it for anything. If you could pick any other Shakespeare character to play who would you pick and why? I’d love to play Iago [from Othello] one day. His mind works in a genius way similarly…

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Elisa Lasowski

If aliens exist and they abducted you, would you rather be in an alien zoo or an alien circus? Alien circus! I did a bit of acrobatics once upon a time for fun. It taught me something valuable about performance, which is that you just have to go for it. If you prepare to do a flip and you’re about to jump but you don’t fully commit to the move, you’ll break your neck. Also, I love clowning. I believe learning how to be made fun of and appearing ridiculous is really important for actors… It’s a good life skill in…

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Kyle Soller

What’s the best idea you’ve had that you found out already existed? I’m not sure you could call most of the ideas that have gone through my head “the best” of anything… What’s your trick for remembering people’s names? Alliteration. What book or movie took you the most tries to start and finish? Probably a curriculum book when I was at school. I remember Great Expectations being particularly uninviting. When was the closest you ever came to breaking character onstage? I was in a play and the guy playing the lead was, at a critical moment for his character, supposed…

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Lucy Boynton

If you had to pick any job in film other than actor, what position would you pick? I would definitely be a casting director. It’s always been the production element that I’ve been most interested in. I cast every book I read. You star in the upcoming coming-of-age film Sing Street. If you could form a band composed of any musicians who would you pick and what would they play?  I would have Paul McCartney and John Lennon on vocals, and although it feels sinful to tamper with their unmatchable harmonies I’d love to have Bowie in there too. Jimi…

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