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PRODUCER: SARA ZION FOR PRODN/ ART+COMMERCE. My mum never hid us from that. It was a cat-and-mouse game that spanned countries and decades – Howle wears prosthetics in the later episodes. William Walter Douglas Howle (born 9 November 1989) is an English actor, known for his roles in television and film. MANICURE: YUKO TSUCHIHASHI FOR DIOR VERNIS/SUSAN PRICE NYC. As a result, Howle enrolled at Jeremy Irons’s alma mater, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. BROWN: I like that you created this imaginary friend who didn’t really want to hang out with you. The film stars Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan as newlyweds Edward and Florence. “As a child, I was bouncing off the walls,” he says. Billy Howle has always stood out. Is Billy Howle dating anyone? There are no selfies with his various co-stars, Saoirse Ronan, Richard Gere, Kim Cattrall, Elisabeth Moss or Florence Pugh. Born on November 9, 1989, he is currently 29 years old and his full name is William Walter Douglas Howle. BROWN: You mentioned you started auditioning professionally before you had officially left drama school. EMMA BROWN: Do you come from an artistic family? “I decided to learn the conventions of classical theater so I could then bend the rules later on,” he says. Actor Billy Howle: interview with Witness for the Prosecution star. If Howle is determined to provoke a public reaction in his acting, he spends his personal life striving for the opposite. PRODUCTION MANAGER: ASHLEY SCOTT FOR PRODN/ ART+COMMERCE. Billy Howle is a British actor, who hails from Stoke-On-Trent. On release in selected Cineworlds from this Friday, On Chesil Beach is the poignant story of a romance seemingly doomed to failure. Stefan Pape interviews British actor Billy Howle on his role as Tony - portraying a young Jim Broadbent - in Ritesh Batra's The Sense of an Ending. He plays the diplomat with a muted determination; he gets the job done and makes the least noise doing it. I tried to picture it and see what they may look like. He cheerfully sums up his lockdown as “eastern European movies and puppets”. Someone once said to me that sometimes you’ve got to do the crowd-pleasers. MAKEUP ASSISTANTS: EMIKO AYABE AND TALY WAISBERG. Then my youngest brother is this a, I want to say jack of all trades, but he’s more a master of all trades—he seems to take to something really, really well. An interview with Billy Howle (Caden) Billy Howle plays Caden in MotherFatherSon. “But from what I’ve heard, it turned out not so bad.”. I think exclusivity is a pretty dangerous thing. BROWN: Glue and Ghosts are both great projects. Herman Knippenberg, the Dutch diplomat who went out of his way to investigate murders committed by convicted killer and notorious conman Charles Sobhraj in the 1970s, has been forever immortalized in BBC One and Netflix’s The Serpent. SET DESIGN: STEFAN BECKMAN/EXPOSURE NY. “I think that Billy Howle did a fantastic job," he said in another recent interview. Yet in a rare interview, he reveals the reality of the case was every bit as heart-stopping as the story unfolding on screen. billy howle | interview This Stoke-born actor’s latest role is Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg, in BBC One/Netflix true-life 1970s murder drama The Serpent . Billy Howle was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, to a schoolteacher mother and a father who teaches at Kent University, the second of four sons. HOWLE: I went to see him in this play. Exclusive interview: actor Billy Howle talks moving drama On Chesil Beach. ‘When I was a kid, I would wear really loud colours: red cords, a yellow T-shirt and a blue jacket, all together. There is this weirdly uncanny resemblance. "I think that Billy Howle did a fantastic job. My mum taught at comprehensive schools and kind of troubleshooted in classes for kids who weren’t perhaps doing as well as they could be doing. The only giveaway is his eyes, which are blue and likely to dart away from any intrigued passerby. We wanted to know what it was and what it did. Despite being tight-lipped about his dating affairs, Billy Howle mentions his girlfriend in interviews sometimes. Interview. British actor Billy Howle portrays the real Herman Knippenberg in The Serpent. And he was full of praise for British actor Billy who gave a 'real' portrayal in the eight-part drama. His parents divorced when he was about … HAIR ASSISTANT: ADLENA DIGNAM. I feel that writers also fit into that, and they also have to do the stuff to pay the bills in order to survive. Red Carpet News TV talks to Director Dominic Cooke, Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Adrian Scarborough and author Ian McEwan on the red carpet at the BFI London Film Festival 2017 at the premiere of 1960s romantic drama On Chesil beach. He seems slightly shocked to hear that I know about his house in Margate or a childhood audition he once had for Babe the Sheep-Pig. I was being almost like a zealot—being really vigilant with when I travelled, and being really prepared. It requires a lot of thinking outside the box. I just do my own thing and try to ignore those more neurotic aspects.” Winter has offered the perfect excuse to go incognito – as Howle is now. Occupation. In the eight-part limited series that follows the true story of Knippenberg’s tireless work to bring the Sobhraj to […] It was doing community theater as a teenager, however—particularly creating workshops for children with behavioral difficulties and special needs—that truly sparked Howle’s passion for acting. Herman Knippenberg, the Dutch diplomat who went out of his way to investigate murders committed by convicted killer and notorious conman Charles Sobhraj in the 1970s, has been forever immortalized in BBC One and Netflix’s The Serpent. That hunger continued into his acting career. See more ideas about on chesil beach, witness for the prosecution, dolce and gabbana suits. Howle, who has modelled for Prada and was responsible for one of TV’s most talked-about sex scenes as Richard Gere’s cocaine-addled heir in the BBC psycho-thriller MotherFatherSon, began acting for the same reason that most young people do anything: because his older sibling did. MAKEUP: PETER PHILIPS FOR CHRISTIAN DIOR. Copyright © 2021 Interview Magazine. He’s also really interested by acting. 12.2k Followers, 1,592 Following, 314 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Billy Howle (@billyhowle) Billy Howle Interview On Chesil Beach Premiere. HOWLE: I think in my brain I was trying to be the imaginary friend. HOWLE: I think we all have this kind of “Howle cynicism,” and that happens quite early on. Posted on May 15, 2018 1:00:00 AM. However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between the young couple come to the surface. Chris Pine & Billy Howle on 'Outlaw King' & Full Frontal Scene Explained | TIFF 2018 | MTV News - YouTube. HOWLE: I was always quite jealous of my older brother Sam because he had an imaginary friend that I think he fully believed in. For more from our New Wave portfolio, click here. He picked up his saxophone again, polished off a screenplay that he hopes to one day direct (a story about loss through the eyes of a kid and his mum), wrote some poetry (“Whether it’s any good or not, I don’t know”) and watched Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1988 Polish series Dekalog. I’ve never thought that people ought to have any interest in my life.”. It’s as big as the world is, and that’s great but it’s also f***ing” – he apologises and tries again – “it’s also really daunting.” His was a childhood of intense contemplation, rumination and deliberation to the point of paralysis. Sean Wilson. But my parents have kind of a European outlook on things like that, in the sense of allowing you to sample things at a younger age in the safety of your own home. “I always think about me saying that and I’m so annoyed that it was used as the tagline for the interview because it was a passing comment,” he grimaces. He has this angst, but it’s quite a mature angst. In his open-faced performance as Oswald in Richard Eyre’s 2014 Broadway adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, it was his light touch to a dark subject matter that had critics sitting up. It was so real at times, some of the scenes I saw. His older brother, Sam, is a graphic designer. [Before that] I did one year at another drama school as a foundation, and then came back and did more community theater. I had done acting as a kid, but I became a lot more serious about it. Find professional Billy Howle videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. Two years later, in The Witness for the Prosecution, it was the wretched humanity he brought to the villain. He’s like six foot two or something, so he’s taller than me, but looks not too dissimilar to how I did when I was 15. He doesn’t read reviews, either. BROWN: Did you believe in Father Christmas as a child? We were fascinated by the brandy, my brother and I. My brother once described it to me, and I wanted to join in the game, so I created this character almost arbitrarily that was walking beside me. Billy Howle: ‘There’s definitely something in me that is a bit broken and poetic’ Megan Conner. The Serpent | Interview with Billy Howle (Herman Knippenberg) 31 December 2020 What is The Serpent? “I was ready to apologise to all Dutch people,” the actor laughs. Actor Billy Howle has appeared in a number of major dramas. In the age of the Instagram confessional, Howle’s socials are comparatively dead. You can imagine what it was like for my youngest brother, having three older brothers, and him still believing in Father Christmas. “You are a performer—you’re always cognizant of the fact that everything you’re doing is heightened, and it has to be.” Howle is not a method actor, but you would never know it from watching him on the stage or screen; whether as a farm boy embroiled in secrets and murder in the British television series Glue or a 19th-century painter succumbing to disease in the Almeida Theatre’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the 25-year-old brings an earnest empathy to each of his roles. [laughs]. “The best thing I can liken it to is wanting to devour the world. HOWLE: I did consider it. I feel like I still have that energy to a certain degree, it’s much more nervous and self-conscious now. Interview. "It was so real at times, some of the scenes I saw. Besides a brief stint on the Isle of Wight to film BritBox’s forthcoming thriller The Beast Must Die, Howle has spent the better part of the past six months alone. Viber. Who is Billy Howle’s girlfriend? Still, he doesn’t want to be famous. It’s my job to be other people all the time. It wasn’t giving me what I wanted it to. We did clowning workshops, drama therapy-type things, mask stuff. Mr. Howle revealed in an interview with The Guardian that he divides his time between London and Margate. Billy Howle is perhaps best known for playing the role of James in the eight-part crime drama Glue which broadcast in late 2014 on E4 in the UK.Talking about crime dramas in an interview with Channel 4, Billy said, “I love a good murder mystery. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “Sam did acting classes when I did dance so I would stand outside the door, waiting for him to finish,” he says, smiling at the memory. This summer, he will begin shooting his first film, an adaptation of Chekhov’s play The Seagull, in which he will star as Konstantin, opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan. He researched his part by speaking with Knippenberg himself, who at 76 is “very much alive and kicking” and living in Wellington, New Zealand. Playing Leonard Vole. RETOUCHING: GLOSS STUDIO. He’s here to talk about The Serpent, a thriller series due on New Year's Day on BBC One. Billy Howle has always stood out. You may also have seen him in movies Dunkirk , On Chesil Beach and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker , as Rey’s father. Billy Howle: ‘There’s definitely something in me that is a bit broken and poetic’ Megan Conner. It's not surprising that Howle has thrived in isolation; under the radar is where he is most comfortable. ... — Billy Howle. SET DESIGN ASSISTANTS: MAX ZINSER AND YONATAN ZONSZEIN. Actor Billy Howle: interview with Witness for the Prosecution star By Helena Kealey on 5/1/2017 Taking a bath with Kim Cattrall, learning from Toby Jones and our love for Agatha Christie: we talk to BBC star Billy Howle William Walter Douglas Howle, noto più semplicemente come Billy Howle (Stoke-on-Trent, 9 novembre 1989), è un attore britannico In the eight-part limited series that follows the true story of Knippenberg’s tireless work to bring the Sobhraj to […] I went back to my local theater, the Stephen Joseph in Scarborough, and worked with community-based theater projects. “I think I was slightly jealous.”. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. It’s great!” My older brother used to run off through the woods on these long walks with his imaginary friend. Interview with Billy Howle who plays Herman Knippenberg in The Serpent The Serpent is available on BBC iPlayer now Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images There was never a kid’s table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don’t think she believes in that. HOWLE: Yeah, I had already casually signed with an agent, and was travelling from Bristol to London at five in the morning to get to an audition for nine. It was like, “I don’t know if I want to get to know this guy, Sam” and he was like,  “Why? This sort of quiet tenacity seems to come naturally to Howle, who has a sort of coiled ambition about him. Home / Film + TV / Interview: Dominic Cooke, Billy Howle Discuss On Chesil Beach. He recalls another formative moment in his childhood: playing Cinderella’s dog in a pantomime, when a (mis)fortunate handling of a plastic bone prompted the audience to roar with laughter. HOWLE: Sure. Howle and Ronan also worked together on “The Seagull,” which is also in theaters. Being pinned to your words is another facet of fame with which Howle seems uneasy. Howle plays Herman Knippenberg, the real-life Dutch diplomat responsible for the capture of Seventies serial killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend-cum-accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman). Finally, if you missed my interview with Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tony Curran, Billy Howle and David Mackenzie at TIFF where we went in … William Walter Douglas Howle. In the two years since he graduated, Howle has booked some impressive roles: In addition to Glue and Ghosts, he also appeared in the miniseries New Worlds with Jamie Dornan. Growing up in Scarborough, England, with a schoolteacher mother, a music professor father, and three brothers, Howle had a readymade audience for his dramatic impulses. Los Angeles, Feb 20 (PTI) Actors Sophie Okonedo, Billy Howle, Denis O’Hare and Parker Sawyers have joined the cast of survival thriller Infinite Storm, starring Naomi Watts in the lead. PHOTO ASSISTANTS: SIMON ROBERTS, HUAN NGUYEN, MARU TEPPEI, AND DEAN PODMORE. “All that crap,” says the 31-year-old, is a “necessary evil in my job. “People always use the phrase in character,” says British actor Billy Howle. But they do. BROWN: You thought about going to university to study English, correct? BILLY HOWLE | INTERVIEW BBC One | Netflix "It felt a little bit overwhelming. Actor. “Social media is very much a show,” says Howle. HOWLE: I think we did try it. “Not unless they’re glowing,” he says with a laugh, aware of how that sounds. SPECIAL THANKS: SOHO LOFTS. I tried to have one myself, but I couldn’t do it. We we were constantly picking on him for things like that—playing small tricks. Howle is most at home with warring emotions. Tell us about Caden. “I was too young to understand why they were laughing, but I liked it.” All Howle knew back then is that he loved making people feel something. He’s riding against something that feels unjust, and I feel like I can definitely relate to that at 15. And in the handsome film adaptation of On Chesil Beach, it was his uneasy blend of defensiveness and meekness. When I bring up a previous article in which Howle called himself “a bit broken and poetic”, he grows frustrated. The Serpent is a story about a killer in the mid-70s called Charles Sobhraj, and how a person working at the Dutch Embassy – the character I play, Herman Knippenberg – came to be embroiled in capturing him. He can really hold his own in most social settings; he’s a very switched-on kid. BROWN: Did you ever have an imaginary friend? HAIR: JAMES PECIS/D+V MANAGEMENT. “Which is a blessing and a curse really,” says the English star of On Chesil Beach and MotherFatherSon, “because the fallout is a lack of discipline, but the plus side is the scope I have in terms of aspiration. ‘When I was a kid, I would wear really loud colours: red cords, a yellow T-shirt and a blue jacket, all together. City Girls and Megan Thee Stallion Celebrate Their Rap-Game Dominance, The Rise of Ella Emhoff, Newly Minted Style Star, Jerry Lorenzo and Kerby Jean-Raymond on Reforming Fashion From the Outside In, Emma Thompson and Tony Kushner Reflect on a Year of Rest and Resignation, Mereba and Vince Staples on Directions, Journeys, and Turning Points. Meet Billy Howle. COSMETICS: DIOR, INCLUDING DIORSKIN NUDE AIR HEALTHY GLOW ULTRA-FLUID SERUM FOUNDATION. Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle) are just married and honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset. This preference for operating unobserved precludes him from ranking on at least one barometer of success: social media. We know that, in the same way that artists have to create mug prints or tea cloths or whatever—they have to do that so that they can then create the work they really want to. Getty Images offers exclusive rights-ready and premium royalty-free analog, HD, and 4K video of the highest quality. Some would say that’s sacrilege…’. BILLY HOWLE IN NEW YORK, APRIL 2015. Leonard Vole is a young, ex-soldier who fought in … He has this angst, but it’s quite a mature angst. The star of new BBC thriller The Serpent was ready to apologise to all Dutch people for his turn as real-life Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg – but there was no need. 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After Howle’s breakthrough role on E4’s 2014 whodunit Glue came a string of glossy literary fare: as an aspiring photographer in The Sense of an Ending; as a murder defendant in the Agatha Christie BBC adaptation The Witness for the Prosecution; as one-half of Ian McEwan’s virginal newlyweds opposite Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach; and as a lovelorn playwright in the star-studded film adaptation of The Seagull. I was fascinated by performing, definitely. On their wedding night, things go from slightly awkward to disastrous as the young couple learns new things about each other. Can you tell us about your character? I feel like I’m a professional storyteller, really. PANTS AND BELT: TOM FORD. Billy Howle, Actor: Dunkirk. All Rights Reserved. He also built a puppet with “a mouth operating thing”. PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: KAIA BALCOS AND JOHN DANIEL POWERS. 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