No. /14 How I took on a line-up of British icons
From Siegfried Sassoon to Morrissey, JACK LOWDEN has become a specialist at playing real-life legends
Clockwise from top: Keeping it real — Jack Lowden as war poet Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction; As Lord Darnley (with Saoirse Ronan) in Mary Queen Of Scots; As Morrissey (with Jessica Brown Findlay) in England Is Mine.
Allstar, Landmark. Illustration: Mike Cathro
IT USED TO bother Jack Lowden that he’s often cast to play real people. Of the 12 films he’s appeared in, half of them have him playing people who lived, including Tony Benn, Morrissey and the ill-fated Lord Darnley in Mary Queen Of Scots. “I thought it was because I’m not very interesting,” Lowden says. He worried people didn’t trust he had enough in himself to enrich a character. “I thought it meant they want me to play other people because they don’t want me.”