INTERVIEW
Sundance.
It tells the tale of a castaway called Hank (Paul Dano), who’s about to take his own life when a very flatulent corpse named Manny (Daniel) washes up on the shore. A friendship is formed, and the pair embark on an adventure together with the aim of returning Hank to the love of his life.
4ALFIE ENOCH
Played Dean Thomas in the wizard series. He popped up as a solider on the BBC’s Sherlock, appeared in the first episode of ITV drama Broadchurch and can now be seen in hit US series How To Get Away With Murder.
Critics have lambasted the film for its ‘puerile’ scenes, but Daniel has nothing but praise for directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as ‘Daniels’.
“I think they’re playing with the idea there are certain things about being human that are universal, whether it’s farting or getting erections or
5MATTHEW LEWIS
Played Neville Longbottom in all eight of the Harry Potter films. You may have since seen Matthew in series like Bluestone 42, Happy Valley and Ripper Street. On the big screen, he was Patrick in Me Before You, out earlier this year. masturbation, or things that aren’t bodily function-related, like being lonely or feeling different or weird,” he offers. “These are things we’re all taught are slightly shameful, and the driving premise of the film is that shame is what keeps us from love and keeps from loving ourselves.” It’s rare for people to speak about their profession with the gusto that Daniel does. “It’s because I’m one of the lucky few who f**king loves my job. Most people hate their job and it’s something you have to get through. Whereas I used to feel I had to get through the bits of life in-between jobs, like I’m working to get back to the job.” He doesn’t, he clarifies, feel like this any more. “I’ve got much better at relaxing and enjoying down-time and hanging out with friends,” says Daniel, who recently returned from two weeks in Greece after wrapping on Jungle, due out next year. He hopes to take some time off to write (“It’s the thing I always want to do”), before appearing on stage again in London next year. Does Daniel ever crave anonymity? “Sometimes,” he admits, nodding. “Privacy is amazingly important, because that’s where you grow. “Ultimately, the hardest thing about growing up in the spotlight, it’s not the easy access to drugs or the strange, sort of pandering world that you enter into, but the difficulty is trying to work out who you are while you’re constantly coming up against a perception of yourself that everybody else already has,” he adds. “I think it’s very important, especially when you become famous young, to work out who you are without fame and without that as part of your identity, because that will go. “Fame does not last forever. For anyone.”
6KATIE LEUNG
Played Cho Chang in Gobelt of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2. Katie has since starred in Channel 4 series Run in 2013 and One Child which was on BBC2 in February this year.
7TOM FELTON
Played Draco Malfoy in every Potter film. Tom was in the big screen version of The Borrowers before his stint on Potter, but since DH Part 2 he’s been in the reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes and TV crime drama Murder in the First.