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Breaking Baz: ‘Stranger Things’ West End Stage Actor Louis McCartney Is Headed For Superstardom, Says Show’s Director Stephen Daldry


Today's 'Breaking Baz' column notes that ‘Stranger Things’ West End director Stephen Daldry believes the show's actor Louis McCartney is bound for superstardom.

In McCartney’s approach to Creel, there’s something of how Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann’s Manhunter and Jonathan Demme’s TheSilence of the Lambs, respectively. He shakes his head and tells me that his dad’s the screenwriter Michael McCartney, whose work includes A Patch of Fog, the 2015 thriller that starred Stephen Graham, Conley Hill, Lara Pulver, and Arsher Ali (so good opposite Gemma Arterton in Funny Woman, but that’s for another column). We chat about how he’s been coping with the sudden rush of fame with him in London, away from his dad, his mum — who is a holistic therapist, “so she deals with chakras and spiritualism” — and an older brother who’s an ocean explorationist.

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