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THEO JAMES
FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS
The Divergent star talks AI, letting loose and his move into producing
Words by Steve O’Brien //// Photography by Ricardo DeAratanha
Theo James is surely the epitome of the “not just a pretty face” cliché. He may be the swoonsome face on a thousand Hugo Boss billboard posters and TV adverts, and the go-to guy when directors want a leading man with F-appeal, yet this 36-year-old Brit has consistently chosen interesting and challenging movie projects, from 2016’s John Michael McDonagh-directed comedy War On Everyone to 2018’s arthouse curio Zoe, to his latest, Archive, in which he plays an obsessive scientist working on creating an android to house the memories of his late wife. Not only that, but last year he set up his own production company, Untapped, with indie producer Andrew D Corkin, and is currently developing a raft of movie and TV projects.