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‘MY AGENT SAID I WAS BORN FOR THE ROLE. THE DESCRIPTION WAS, “YOUNG, SMART AND PHYSICALLY FRAIL”’

Had Harrison Osterfield arrived a decade or so earlier, his Surrey accent and floppy hair would have made a fine fit for an English actor in Hollywood. But on his first day at the BRIT School, London’s college for the performing arts, the 24-year-old wondered whether it was all a mistake. “I’d just left my strait-laced boarding school, and here I was, surrounded by extroverts,” he tells The Rake.

As becomes evident in our chat, Harrison is more than the sum of his posher parts. He toes the party line (there are people

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