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London Spy: Ben Whishaw, dreamy lover/genius Ed Holcroft and sage Jim Broadbent
Aloysius J. Gleek:
A MOST WANTED MAN
Whether conducting his dangerous liaisons on screen or on stage,
London Spy seducer Edward Holcroft is about to blow his cover
FILMING London Spy took Edward Holcroft into uncharted professional territory. The drama, based loosely on the case of Gareth Williams, the MI6 agent found dead in a sports bag, demanded Holcroft’s first ever sex scene - and it was to be with Bond star Ben Whishaw. His approach? “Just jump into it. So I literally jumped on to the bed and was like, ‘Let’s go!”’ recalls Holcroft, who made his name in projects such as Wolf Hall and Kingsman: The Secret Service. “We had become quite close by that point, so it was quite special. Of all the people I could have dreamed of having a gay sex scene with, Ben would be my number one.”
Holcroft’s lack of inhibition has served the 27-year-old well in his career - he took up acting on a whim after a university friend suggested he’d be good in a play - but in his younger years it landed him in trouble. “I was f***ing naughty at boarding school.” His escapades included all the classics: creeping out at night, turning up drunk to prayers and getting caught in a girl’s bedroom (despite taking refuge behind a pair of curtains). “It was a Catholic school so that was like the eighth deadly sin.”
Now with a slate including this month’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse and a starring role in the upcoming film adaptation of Julian Barnes’ The Sense Of An Ending, he is one of a crop of new British actors to emerge from the public school system (indeed, this year he briefly dated Prince Harry’s ex, Cressida Bonas, with whom he’s “still very good friends”). Does his background afford an unfair advantage? “I think you get a lot of opportunities that other people don’t, it would be foolish to pretend otherwise,” he says. “But I’m not taking it for granted. I work hard and that’s the best I can do.”
GQ UK, January 2016, p. 45
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