THE INNOCENT

Percelle Ascott is Harry

What appealed to you more – the love story or the fantasy?

It was the emotional side. Once I did my first audition I got a taste for it, and a hunger for it. I loved the world, I loved what they were going for and just wanted to be a part of it.

is Harry there to ground the fantastical stuff?

Absolutely. And that was the hardest part of the journey – how can you find the truth within the shape-shifting powers? This is a story about family and love. It’s two teenagers on this journey of coming of age, trying to find out who they are. We’re using shapeshifting as a device to get that point across.

you’re in your 20s. What’s the trick to playing 16?

I think younger people have a confidence in making a choice, and being bold, not knowing what the consequences are. As we get older we start to fear consequences. I think there’s a beauty in being young and being fearless. That’s what I used to drive my choices.

What does Sorcha bring to the show?

She’s super, super intelligent as an actress. That helps so much in trying to understand the layers of the world and trying to find that normality. There’s a pressure that we’re under as young actors being a Netflix lead, and there’s also an age gap between me and Sorcha and she handles that so well. If I were doing this role at the same age I don’t know that I’d be able to cope with that pressure. Nick Setchfield