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‘The Gentlemen’ Star Theo James Reignites His Passion For Comedy On Guy Ritchie’s Sendup Of British Aristocracy
After a stint as an obnoxious, loud American in The White Lotus, Theo James wanted to challenge himself by playing someone totally different. Enter Eddie Horniman, the reserved, British Duke thrown into an aristocratic weed-growing empire in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen. Not only was this an opportunity for a Godfather-style ascension story and […]
Not only was this an opportunity for a Godfather-style ascension story and a chance to work with the Lock, Stock director, but James was also excited to take some pot shots at the gentry that owns so much British land — much to the bemusement of the real-life Duke of Beaufort, whose estate was the location for the shoot. We talked with Guy and the writers, not that we’d ever emulate The Godfather because it’s obviously one of the greatest films of all time, but that story of the young moral son who comes home, becomes the head of this complex, f*cked up family and then has to navigate the world around him. It’s such a huge part of our culture and it defines British identity that I thought it would be both comedic, but also in the lightest possible way, interesting to delve into this idea of an aristocratic family smashed into the world of a contemporary kind of Peaky Blinders.
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