GROWiNG PAINS
Making a bad-taste joke about your late grandmother’s penchant for peen is a do-I-cut-the-red-or-blue-wire risk that has the potential to decimate the mood of whatever room you’re in: oh, hello, tumbleweed.
The impromptu remark comes splurging out my mouth after Sex Education star Connor Swindells – serving mean and moody Wolverine ‘you can sink your claws into me any time’ vibes in jeans and a leather jacket – shares an anecdote about a guy who has a giant cock tattooed on his forearm, and how shocking it would be if, for instance, his sweet ol’ granny was to ever lay eyes on the inking.
Cue rude riposte, which I won’t put in print here, because you really did have to be there to appreciate it. Fortunately, the cheap quip lassoes a laugh from Connor and that is the most important thing; although I did have to say three Hail Mary’s and self-flagellate for an hour when I got home. (Sorry, Nan, hope you’re not reading this.)
Arriving for his Attitude cover shoot in London’s Whitechapel at a seriously nifty studio space, a one-time bell foundry where, fact fans, Big Ben came ringing into existence, a sun-kissed, loose vest-clad Connor cuts a very chilled figure.
The British actor has been busy; as well as making waves in the BBC’s must-see murder mystery, opposite Suranne Jones, he recently wrapped filming on upcoming project in Morocco. Based on Ben Macintyre’s bestselling book, it sees him step up as a member of the Special Forces alongside Dominic West, Jack O’Connell and Alfie Allen. Initial thought: hot. More pressing is the much-anticipated return of Netflix’s , the taboo-tickling, teenage trope-twisting comedy drama in which Connor made his name.
