William Walter Douglas Howle. Stefan Pape interviews British actor Billy Howle on his role as Tony - portraying a young Jim Broadbent - in Ritesh Batra's The Sense of an Ending. Who is Billy Howle’s girlfriend? BROWN: Did you believe in Father Christmas as a child? He’s riding against something that feels unjust, and I feel like I can definitely relate to that at 15. He’s like six foot two or something, so he’s taller than me, but looks not too dissimilar to how I did when I was 15. On their wedding night, things go from slightly awkward to disastrous as the young couple learns new things about each other. HOWLE: I think we all have this kind of “Howle cynicism,” and that happens quite early on. “Sam did acting classes when I did dance so I would stand outside the door, waiting for him to finish,” he says, smiling at the memory. Copyright © 2021 Interview Magazine. Actor. Billy Howle is perhaps best known for playing the role of James in the eight-part crime drama Glue which broadcast in late 2014 on E4 in the UK.Talking about crime dramas in an interview with Channel 4, Billy said, “I love a good murder mystery. And with them, came a slowly mounting profile. Actor Billy Howle: interview with Witness for the Prosecution star By Helena Kealey on 5/1/2017 Taking a bath with Kim Cattrall, learning from Toby Jones and our love for Agatha Christie: we talk to BBC star Billy Howle Years active. ... — Billy Howle. BROWN: Did you ever have an imaginary friend? It was so real at times, some of the scenes I saw. So that, in itself, I think, is quite a creative skill. “How many followers I have is becoming more pertinent in terms of actual decision-making within the industry,” he says. The Serpent begins on BBC One on New Year's Day at 9pm, Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. “But from what I’ve heard, it turned out not so bad.”. Then my youngest brother is this a, I want to say jack of all trades, but he’s more a master of all trades—he seems to take to something really, really well. “People always use the phrase in character,” says British actor Billy Howle. I was fascinated by performing, definitely. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. “All that crap,” says the 31-year-old, is a “necessary evil in my job. Can you tell us about your character? I’ve never thought that people ought to have any interest in my life.”. I had done acting as a kid, but I became a lot more serious about it. “I decided to learn the conventions of classical theater so I could then bend the rules later on,” he says. If Howle is determined to provoke a public reaction in his acting, he spends his personal life striving for the opposite. It was doing community theater as a teenager, however—particularly creating workshops for children with behavioral difficulties and special needs—that truly sparked Howle’s passion for acting. Interview with actor Billy Howle ahead of the release of new drama film, The Sense of an Ending. It’s all there for you and I just remember wanting to eat everything.”. He cheerfully sums up his lockdown as “eastern European movies and puppets”. In the age of the Instagram confessional, Howle’s socials are comparatively dead. That hunger continued into his acting career. It still felt very much indulgent and very much about me, and I don’t believe that acting is that. Despite being tight-lipped about his dating affairs, Billy Howle mentions his girlfriend in interviews sometimes. I feel like I’m a professional storyteller, really. BROWN: I like that you created this imaginary friend who didn’t really want to hang out with you. In the two years since he graduated, Howle has booked some impressive roles: In addition to Glue and Ghosts, he also appeared in the miniseries New Worlds with Jamie Dornan. I feel that writers also fit into that, and they also have to do the stuff to pay the bills in order to survive. HOWLE: I was mad. Chris Pine & Billy Howle on 'Outlaw King' & Full Frontal Scene Explained | TIFF 2018 | MTV News - YouTube. Billy Howle, Actor: Dunkirk. Howle, who has modelled for Prada and was responsible for one of TV’s most talked-about sex scenes as Richard Gere’s cocaine-addled heir in the BBC psycho-thriller MotherFatherSon, began acting for the same reason that most young people do anything: because his older sibling did. HOWLE: Yeah, it is. I do that enough. “Not unless they’re glowing,” he says with a laugh, aware of how that sounds. COSMETICS: DIOR, INCLUDING DIORSKIN NUDE AIR HEALTHY GLOW ULTRA-FLUID SERUM FOUNDATION. PHOTO ASSISTANTS: SIMON ROBERTS, HUAN NGUYEN, MARU TEPPEI, AND DEAN PODMORE. “I think I was slightly jealous.”. He has this angst, but it’s quite a mature angst. I tried to go to college in the UK a couple of time, but at that point I think I was a little disillusioned with education. The Witness for the Prosecution star speaks to Gentleman's Journal about becoming Britain's literary film star William Walter Douglas Howle, noto più semplicemente come Billy Howle (Stoke-on-Trent, 9 novembre 1989), è un attore britannico Start your Independent Premium subscription today. So occasionally you’ll come across a piece of writing and it could be full of exposition and it’s very formulaic and doesn’t inspire you to want to do it. Meet Billy Howle. Find professional Billy Howle videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. "I think that Billy Howle did a fantastic job. Taking a bath with Kim Cattrall, learning from Toby Jones and our love for Agatha Christie: we talk to BBC star Billy Howle . BILLY HOWLE | INTERVIEW BBC One | Netflix "It felt a little bit overwhelming. He researched his part by speaking with Knippenberg himself, who at 76 is “very much alive and kicking” and living in Wellington, New Zealand. The star of new BBC thriller The Serpent was ready to apologise to all Dutch people for his turn as real-life Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg – but there was no need. HOWLE: I did consider it. [laughs]. There is this weirdly uncanny resemblance. RETOUCHING: GLOSS STUDIO. William Walter Douglas Howle (born 9 November 1989) is an English actor, known for his roles in television and film. Home / Film + TV / Interview: Dominic Cooke, Billy Howle Discuss On Chesil Beach. I was more interested in me doing that than creating someone else. I went back to my local theater, the Stephen Joseph in Scarborough, and worked with community-based theater projects. HAIR: JAMES PECIS/D+V MANAGEMENT. [laughs] You come across scripts where you’re very aware that a writer has a remit too, and sometimes that’s box-ticking for them, and I’m sure that’s soulless, and I’m sure they’d prefer to be working on something that they’re truly passionate about. HOWLE: Yeah, I had already casually signed with an agent, and was travelling from Bristol to London at five in the morning to get to an audition for nine. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images ( 1989-11-09) 9 November 1989 (age 31) Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. My older brother is a graphic designer. "It was so real at times, some of the scenes I saw. Yet in a rare interview, he reveals the reality of the case was every bit as heart-stopping as the story unfolding on screen. 12.2k Followers, 1,592 Following, 314 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Billy Howle (@billyhowle) The film stars Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan as newlyweds Edward and Florence. I tried to picture it and see what they may look like. It’s my job to be other people all the time. As a result, Howle enrolled at Jeremy Irons’s alma mater, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He also built a puppet with “a mouth operating thing”. He plays the diplomat with a muted determination; he gets the job done and makes the least noise doing it. But mine was quite dark and elusive, and because it was so dark and elusive I kind of gave it a miss. Leonard Vole is a young, ex-soldier who fought in … All Rights Reserved. Sean Wilson. Herman Knippenberg, the Dutch diplomat who went out of his way to investigate murders committed by convicted killer and notorious conman Charles Sobhraj in the 1970s, has been forever immortalized in BBC One and Netflix’s The Serpent. On release in selected Cineworlds from this Friday, On Chesil Beach is the poignant story of a romance seemingly doomed to failure. He’s riding against something that feels unjust, and I feel like I can definitely relate to that at 15. He has this angst, but it’s quite a mature angst. It’s great!” My older brother used to run off through the woods on these long walks with his imaginary friend. The pair spoke at length about his impending performance, not least the intimidating accent it demanded. Posted on May 15, 2018 1:00:00 AM. In the eight-part limited series that follows the true story of Knippenberg’s tireless work to bring the Sobhraj to […] Howle and Ronan also worked together on “The Seagull,” which is also in theaters. Have you ever had that pressure where you take a job to get exposure, or just to be working? Is Billy Howle dating anyone? HOWLE: I was always quite jealous of my older brother Sam because he had an imaginary friend that I think he fully believed in. The Serpent is a story about a killer in the mid-70s called Charles Sobhraj, and how a person working at the Dutch Embassy – the character I play, Herman Knippenberg – came to be embroiled in capturing him. “As a child, I was bouncing off the walls,” he says. Interview. Los Angeles, Feb 20 (PTI) Actors Sophie Okonedo, Billy Howle, Denis O’Hare and Parker Sawyers have joined the cast of survival thriller Infinite Storm, starring Naomi Watts in the lead. HOWLE: I think we did try it. HOWLE: I think in my brain I was trying to be the imaginary friend. And in the handsome film adaptation of On Chesil Beach, it was his uneasy blend of defensiveness and meekness. BILLY HOWLE IN NEW YORK, APRIL 2015. Whereas Sam is a much more a pictorial, visual person, which is why he graphic designs. This summer, he will begin shooting his first film, an adaptation of Chekhov’s play The Seagull, in which he will star as Konstantin, opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan. A lot of people say “a truth teller,” and, if the writing supports it, that’s what your aim is: to try and present people with a series of truths, and then they can make up their mind about those and whether they have any real credence or weight. Occupation. But my parents have kind of a European outlook on things like that, in the sense of allowing you to sample things at a younger age in the safety of your own home. ‘When I was a kid, I would wear really loud colours: red cords, a yellow T-shirt and a blue jacket, all together. Finally, if you missed my interview with Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tony Curran, Billy Howle and David Mackenzie at TIFF where we went in … Playing Leonard Vole. “Social media is very much a show,” says Howle. It's not surprising that Howle has thrived in isolation; under the radar is where he is most comfortable. [Before that] I did one year at another drama school as a foundation, and then came back and did more community theater. Nor does he want an online presence. Words by … He’s here to talk about The Serpent, a thriller series due on New Year's Day on BBC One. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? MAKEUP ASSISTANTS: EMIKO AYABE AND TALY WAISBERG. One of my brothers is a classical guitarist. He can really hold his own in most social settings; he’s a very switched-on kid. Posted on May 15, 2018 1:00:00 AM. I think we were always interested in the fact that my mum always put out this brandy and this mince pie and carrots. Actor Billy Howle has appeared in a number of major dramas. MAKEUP: PETER PHILIPS FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR. Only those new discoveries come a little too late. This preference for operating unobserved precludes him from ranking on at least one barometer of success: social media. City Girls and Megan Thee Stallion Celebrate Their Rap-Game Dominance, The Rise of Ella Emhoff, Newly Minted Style Star, Jerry Lorenzo and Kerby Jean-Raymond on Reforming Fashion From the Outside In, Emma Thompson and Tony Kushner Reflect on a Year of Rest and Resignation, Mereba and Vince Staples on Directions, Journeys, and Turning Points. BILLY HOWLE: Yes, my mum and dad are still together and they’re both very creative. It requires a lot of thinking outside the box. His characters are never easy to like or dislike – he would never offer up something as simple as that. Still, he doesn’t want to be famous. Ve got to do the crowd-pleasers? Subscribe to Independent premium and Ghosts are great! 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