Perfect stranger
Fleabag star Kadiff Kirwan cuts through the yellow tape as a gay detective in a new thriller. He tells Thomas Stichbury about diversity in the industry and, of course, pencil haircuts
Kadiff Kirwan
Making the most of his snip of screen time — all 21/2 minutes of it — in the sublime second series of Fleabag, Kadiff Kirwan proved to be a cut above the rest as hairdresser Anthony. Yes, the man responsible for Claire’s amazing (and very French) pencil ‘do. And the pencils have been sharpened against the actor ever since. “I did one scene and it’s genuinely been bonkers, people stopping me in the str eet,” he exclaims. “I was in Charing Cr oss, I had my earphones in, and I sw ear I could hear someone saying my name. So, I took an earphone out and a w oman was screaming: ‘Hair is everything, Anthony’.”
Counting Fleabag co-star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a good friend – we’re more than a little jealous – and with a growing roster of rich TV and film roles to his name, 30 -year-old Kadiff has come a long wa y.