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‘28 Years Later’ Teen Star Alfie Williams on Collaborating With Danny Boyle, Climbing a Tower of Skulls and Navigating the ‘Scary’ Infected on Set
Meet ‘28 Years Later’ star Alfie Williams, the ‘hugely talented’ 14-year old newcomer hunting the infected in Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic sequel.
The film — releasing via Sony Pictures on June 20 — lands almost a quarter-century after the iconic and genre-defining original “28 Days Later.” Set almost three decades since the super-contagious rage virus escaped from a biological weapons factory and ravaged the world, the new movie sees the U.K. now a quarantine zone, a desolate wasteland isolated from the rest of virus-free Europe and where the infected can run — and in some cases crawl — free. In his first major screen role, Williams plays Spike, a young lad living with his mother (Jodie Comer) and father ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson) in a community of survivors on an small island connected to the mainland by a single causeway. Speaking to Variety in his first major interview, Williams discusses being inspired by his dad (an actor himself who has been directed by Ken Loach), what it was like to climb up the tower of skulls, the “crazy” experiencing of seeing himself on the poster and how Stephen Graham — much like for “Adolescence” star Cooper — played a crucial role in his career.
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