World news – AU – Millie Bobby Brown’s New Leading Man Has Gone From Fashion-Loving A-Level Student To Burgeoning Brit Heartthrob

In Enola Holmes – the Netflix movie mystery starring Millie Bobby Brown in the title role as Sherlock Holmes’s much younger sister – a new British heartthrob is born. Meet 17-year-old Louis Partridge, who started shooting just a week after finishing his GCSEs last summer.

“I was straight into filming once the exams were done,” he told Miss Vogue over the phone from his parents house in south west London. “The whole audition process happened when I was revising, and I was very much more into focusing on the auditions than the exams.” Luckily, he was happy with his results, and is currently contemplating whether to carry on working towards his A-levels or throw himself fully into his acting career. 

It’s already off to a flying start. Blessed with that same uniquely British charm that made stars of Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as young actors, Louis brings a cheeky appeal to his character, Lord Tewksbury. “It was quite natural to me,” he laughed, his grin audible over the phone line. “There’s a bit of me in that character… probably a bit too much. It was brilliant to properly sit down and try to take a character off the page, as that wasn’t something I had done before. We brought warmth to him.”

Louis credits his producer and co-star Millie Bobby Brown with helping him to bring confidence to the role. “She has a great way of making you feel completely at home, and like you’ve known each other for ages,” Louis said. “I was very, very grateful for that when acting alongside her, and there was this chemistry that had been developed off-screen that we could bring on screen. I loved it.”

Developing that chemistry wasn’t without its mishaps, however. “I’d done two chemistry reads before we started filming, and one went significantly better than the other,” Louis said. “Millie told me the other day that she distinctly remembers me having very red ears — because I was so nervous! My mum had told me to wear a shirt for my ‘big audition’, and I ended up having to be blotted down.”

Now, Louis regards his initial nervousness as a useful, adrenaline-fuelling asset. “I was being really trusted with a big job,” Louis said. ”I think that’s quite brave of the director and producers to trust me with that. It would have been easy for them to have gone for someone with more experience. It would have been the more secure option. They took a chance, and I hope I delivered on that because I was very nervous at times.”

Enola Holmes lands on Netflix on 23 September, meaning Louis’s performance will be streamed into homes around the globe. Among the people who will definitely be tuning in? Louis’s mates, who are primed to keep their friend’s feet on the ground when his profile inevitably rockets. “They are always there to knock me down a peg or two when I get too wrapped up in it,” he laughed. “They take the mick out of me the whole time, so just wait until they find out about this interview.”

It seems chatting to Vogue was always in Louis’s future – the chiselled actor confesses to harbouring modelling aspirations. “Sometimes I have to remember that I am an actor,” he said, adding that he enjoys fashion “a bit too much”. (No such thing, Louis.) “But as I’ve been told numerous times, I’m not tall enough to be a runway model.”

Instead, Louis contents himself with browsing the rails at Dover Street Market. “There’s a difference between the brands I wear, and the brands I’d like to wear,” he admitted. “I enjoy going to Dover Street Market and seeing these insane exhibitions of these crazy clothes.” His time in Rome shooting Medici also fostered a taste for Italian style. “I would go to the Fendi flagship store a lot,” he shared, adding that his desired look is “stylish, but not like you’ve tried hard”.

SOURCE: https://www.w24news.com/news/world-news-au-millie-bobby-browna%c2%80%c2%99s-new-leading-man-has-gone-from-fashion-loving-a-level-student-to-burgeoning-brit-heartthrob/?remotepost=320724