The Invisible Man
Some actors want to be movie stars – name in neon lights, red-carpet premieres on every continent, a seven-picture superhero deal. Not George MacKay. Over a near-20-year career, the London-born star of 1917, True History Of The Kelly Gang and the upcoming Netflix crime thriller I Came By has made a virtue of his relative anonymity given his leading-man status. “At the end of the day, if you want to be a chameleon there is a level of not knowing required,” MacKay tells TF. “Fame… it’s not been a thing, so it hasn’t become a thing.”
Whether by design or by chance (“Maybe a bit of both,” he chuckles) MacKay isn’t the kind of actor to rack up column inches, or make a commodity of a larger-than-life persona. He doesn’t even have the requisite Instagram account. Instead he’s
