![]() ![]() A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons." I needed to decide that acting was what I really wanted to do. "There was quite a gap between About a Boy and my role in Skins, and that was important for me. He's been famous for a long time: did the attention have an effect on him? "A little bit, but I was very distant from it at the same time," he replies. He made his professional debut, aged seven, in 1996's Intimate Relations, starring Rupert Graves and Julie Walters, before his breakthrough role, at the age of 12, as Marcus Brewer in 2002's About a Boy with Hugh Grant.īreakthrough role: with Toni Collette and Hugh Grant in 2002’s About a Boy. Hoult was discovered at three, sitting in the audience with his mother while watching David in a play when the show's director spotted his "ability to concentrate" and told his parents that if he, at his age, was that focused in the audience, then he'd be able to act. But it probably worked out for the best." "I even made an offer on a house in Camden a few months ago, but the buyer decided not to sell. "I keep meaning to get my own place," he says. They're a close family, and Hoult lives in his parents' house when he's in the UK. The eldest, David, was an actor, too, but gave it up to study chemistry in America. But three of their four children – Nicholas, Rosie and Clarista – are all in the business. Born and raised in Wokingham, Berkshire his parents, a pilot and a piano teacher, both now retired, were not the acting sort. It's taken 10 years to transform Hoult from child-star to big-time Hollywood player. Does he feels at all nervous that he's now carrying a major Hollywood film? He thinks for a moment before responding: "The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility. In March, he will play the lead role in Jack the Giant Slayer, a monster-budget Hollywood number based on the beanstalk fairytale and directed by Bryan Singer. I feel a little bit lost when a film wraps."īlood simple: as a zombie in Warm Bodies. "So I think it's going to take a bit of time to adjust. "I've been out in the desert with my head, literally, in the sand for months," he says. Hoult was cast by director George Miller – "one of the most intelligent, caring guys in the world" – as one of his post-apocalyptic warriors back in 2009, but filming didn't start until last year. He had been busy filming Mad Max: Fury Road, the long-awaited fourth film in the franchise, with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. The physical change makes sense when you consider what he's been up to recently: Hoult has just arrived back in the UK from six months on location in Namibia and Cape Town. A handsome, 6ft 3in action hero of a grown-up. His hair has been buzz-cut, he's got the beginnings of a beard (a beard!) and he seems to have lost a lot of weight, so his eyes are now even bigger than the usual pools of blue that take up most of his face. He arrives at a west London café with his older sister, Rosie, a gorgeous slip of a girl who he later tells me is also an actor, and to whom he's close. ![]() N icholas Hoult has undergone a metamorphosis. ![]()
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