The management at Dover Street, he says, were ‘absolutely brilliant’ about letting him have time off, ‘three, four-hour lunch breaks’ for auditions. He eventually left the shop at 23 and, despite having no formal acting training or drama school on his CV, he has been making his living from acting since. Yet, even now he sometimes finds it hard to call himself an actor. ‘Funny, isn’t it? I mean, it’s what I do. I act. But are we defined by our jobs?’ He worked with his acting coach, Martin (‘my guru’, he notes sweetly) all the way through The Capture. ‘He’s guiding me,’ he says. ‘And I’m going on a journey with him, essentially. I don’t want to miss something. I feel responsibility to myself to be good. I feel responsibility to push myself.’
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