This article was first published on April 7 2024
The waitress arrives and Jack O’Connell claps his hands together. “What’ll it be, what’ll it be? You’ve got sparkling water? Ah, that’s great for me. Bless ya. They’re good here aren’t they, Scarlett?”
I’d been warned about O’Connell by someone else who had interviewed him and described him as “so charming you’ll forget to ask him any questions”. Well, I’m certainly getting the full charm today. He stares earnestly when I ask him something, then asks me lots of questions back in his thick Derby accent; he laughs easily and is completely and utterly devoid of any pretence. “I went to the Met Gala once, I didn’t know what it was,” the 33-year-old actor tells me.
