Last year, during four days in January, when I directed Rhoda, my second short film, in a tiny house in Camberwell with Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’Arcy.
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Alex Lawther
b. 1995
Born in Hampshire, Alex Lawther, 30, made his West End debut in David Hare’s South Downs at 16. In 2014 he played the young Alan Turing in the film The Imitation Game, earning him a London Critics’ Circle award. In 2016, he starred in the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance, and from 2017 he played the lead in Channel 4’s The End of the F***ing World. He appears in the series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the 1979 Alien film, which is streaming on Hulu. He lives in London with his partner.
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Not getting to the point.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
Mistaking shyness for not having anything to say.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
My partner was doing a play in Hong Kong last year and I went to visit him, and I bought him a beautiful teacup. But I didn’t look at the price tag before I took it to the till and it was £100, the most expensive teacup imaginable.
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Ponderous, over thinking.
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A receding hairline.
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Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
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I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
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I would try and get to being comfortable with myself quicker.
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I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
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My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
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You can only do one thing at a time.
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I think we go back into the earth.
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