From left James Floyd and Trystan Gravelle
some tough early years (“You’ve got to go through the grinder, take a few hits, a few emotional tum- bles, to be any good in this line of work,” he says). People who see him convince as the troubled Rash in Sally El Hosaini’s extraordinary drama My Brother The Devil won’t understand why the tal- ented Floyd has ever struggled, but he says his unusual, flexible heritage initially made it tougher to find work. With a blond-haired father and a Singaporean mother of Malaysian and Indian descent, Floyd has played everything from British to Spanish, Indian and now, in My Brother The Devil, a British Arab . “I don’t feel I have a race or culture,” he says. “That’s why London makes sense to me.” As for My Brother The Devil, “It is the first time
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in my career I was overly confident,” he admits. “I knew this was a special film.” With formal training from the National Youth
Theatre and a RADA summer course at the Old Vic, Floyd will be seen soon in the BBC drama The Best Possible Taste playing Freddie Mercury to Oliver Lansley’s Kenny Everett. He has also shot the thriller Rearview as well as Sky Atlantic’s The Blind Man Of Seville, in which he plays a bull- fighter. “It is really shaping up this year,” says Floyd,
and to underline that, he has just signed with UTA in Los Angeles. Contact Peter Brooks, Creative Artists Management +44 (0) 20 7292 0600
pb@cam.co.uk
TRYSTAN GRAVELLE “I wasn’t a horrible child,” says the effortlessly charming Welsh actor Trystan Gravelle. “I just got up to no good like anyone else.” Drama was, of course, the answer and he certainly turned out to be talented at it. Gravelle won a scholarship to RADA, and went to the Royal Shakespeare Company after graduation for three years, followed by a lengthy stint at The Globe. Gravelle has already performed many of the stage’s great roles to acclaim — there is no doubt anyone who has performed Hamlet at the RSC can act. But he has never had time to crack film, until now. Gravelle has followed up a role as Christopher Marlowe in Roland Emmerich’s Anon- ymous by landing a coveted part as the young Brit- ish lead (“a social climber, a ladies’ man”) opposite
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