![]() ![]() ![]() George MacKay is the kind of adaptable and ready-to-impress talent who can either rise up and convincingly lead an adventure, or shrink to support the stars – the kind of actor you’ve been seeing, without realising, front and centre, or maybe just slightly shuffled to the left, for almost two decades. This was the first time the British actor had been invited to the Oscars, but he’s been working for over 16 years.Ĭredit: Picturehouse Entertainment / IFC Films It’s the pinnacle of the celebrations of a year’s work.” He’s being modest here. “It was exciting just to be at the ceremony,” says the 27-year-old British actor of his trip to the Academy Awards. Read more: 1917 review – Skyfall director Sam Mendes crafts poignant, human story out of inhuman conflict. ![]() Thanks to WWI thriller 1917, in which he plays the lead, MacKay is the talk of Tinseltown. He met Parasite director Bong Joon-ho (“the nicest man”), Taika Waititi (“amazing energy”) and even had a fleeting encounter with Joaquin Phoenix in a toilet at the BAFTAs. In actual fact, he’s spent most of the last three months in a tux, swapping war stories (literally) with Hollywood’s biggest names at the grandest awards parties. ![]() He greets NME in London’s Mayfair Hotel with an enormous smile, as if this is the first interview he’s ever done and he couldn’t be happier about it. Reel Talk is NME’s weekly interview feature with the biggest names in film and TV ![]()
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