Even with the dodgy definition of a globe-spanning Zoom connection, Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s 33-yearold face looks decidedly boyish. After a career of playing wide-eyed kids ever since he was Sam, Liam Neeson’s lovelorn stepson in Love Actually in 2003, he finally got to play grown-ups in shows such as The Queen’s Gambit and Pistol in the 2020s.
In Danny Boyle’s 2022 series about the Sex Pistols, BrodieSangster stole the show as punk mastermind Malcolm McLaren, who acted like a sort of situationist Fagin –of Dickens’ –towards the damaged London street urchins in the band. Brodie-Sangster thought so, too. He tells the he remembers writing “Fagin” in the margins of his script. As McLaren, he was finally playing somebody near his own age. It
