Tom Sturridge Fan

Tom was in November’s issue of Vogue to promote Pirate Radio. You can check out the photo below in our gallery. In the accompanying article, when Tom was asked about his days at school, he said, “Bad attitude, apathy, ambivalence. These things continue.” Read the entire thing after the jump.

Making Waves: Tom Sturridge

British newcomer Tom Sturridge brings a roguish charm (and the requisite floppy hair) to Richard Curtis’s Pirate Radio.

Sitting at an old New York bar wearing a T-shirt and a black knit cap pulled down over his shaggy brown hair, 22-year-old Tom Sturridge is cheerful if groggy after a late night. “I love this place,” he sighs, scanning a wall of vintage photographs. “I have never been here before, but I am definitely coming back with friends. Like tonight.”

The British actor got his start in a television adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels at age nine. “My father [Charles Sturridge] was the director, my mother [Phoebe Nicholls] was starring in it, and I think they just wanted their kid to come along,” he says. After bouncing around (and out of) a few private schools—“Nothing too romantic,” he says, wryly. “Bad attitude, apathy, ambivalence. These things continue”—he landed roles in Vanity Fair, Being Julia, and Like Minds. This fall he stars in Richard Curtis’s Pirate Radio, a film about an illegal rock-’n’-roll radio station anchored in the waters off England in the 1960s that has a venerable (and hilarious) cast, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, and Bill Nighy.

For the most part, Sturridge is taking it all in stride, but he does get dazzled now and then. “I was doing the whole red-carpet thing in Scotland, and I felt a tap on my shoulder and there was Paul McCartney. We shook hands, and it was really great,” he says. “Two minutes later, I felt another tap on my shoulder. It was Brian O’Driscoll.” His eyes widen. “He’s the captain of the Irish rugby team. I shook his hand in complete shock, you know? It was, like, the biggest person I ever met.”

Article by Caroline Palmer

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