5 Easy Summer Looks With The Small Screen’s Next Big Thing

It’s early April and regardless of a chill within the air, Richmond-upon-Thames, simply outdoors London, is wanting just like the French Riviera. Daylight shimmers on the river and shines onto the face of 22-year-old actor Harrison Osterfield, perched on a jetty above, prefer it is aware of he’s the subsequent large factor.

There’s an simple air of Dickie Greenleaf from The Proficient Mr. Ripley about Osterfield. Not simply the piercing blue eyes, simple tan or the mousy blonde sweep. There’s a poise about him. Confidence past his years. A sly smile. The wrist tucked underneath the chin.

It’s all an act. “I discover photograph shoots nerve-wracking,” says Osterfield. “I discover it simpler to cover behind a personality or a load of traces. Once you placed on these garments that make you look a bit totally different then I simply try to get into the character who would put on these garments. Channeling a little bit of Dickie Greenleaf, a little bit of James Dean.”

The comparability is appreciated by Osterfield who sees Jude Legislation, who performed Greenleaf within the movie model, as a significant supply of each fashion and profession inspiration. (It’s additionally a motive why we styled him on this unique shoot in easy-wearing spring/summer trends.)

By the seems to be of it, Osterfield is on an analogous path to the older actor. His newest function finds him taking a pivotal function in George Clooney’s new TV adaptation of Catch-22. And he follows that with walk-on appearances in two Marvel superhero movies, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers: Infinity Warfare.

“It’s a grand battle epic,” he says about Catch-22. “I play a tail gunner referred to as Snowden that has simply come from America to Europe for the Second World Warfare and is thrown into the combination instantly. I’ve a reasonably shut relationship with the lead character who’s performed by Christopher Abbot. We’ve some actually intimate scenes collectively which have an excellent impact on the grand scheme of issues. It’s good for me as despite the fact that it’s a small half it has a giant impact on the sequence.”

It’s not simply the seems to be and the fashion that draw comparisons to Jude Legislation. Again in 1993, Legislation was splashed throughout the entrance web page of journal and tradition bible The Face as one of many New Brit Pack, a gaggle of British actors of their early 20s, all tipped for greatness. Osterfield appears to be in one in every of his personal. It consists of pals Asa Butterfield, star of Hollywood blockbuster Ender’s Sport and Netflix sleeper success Intercourse Training, and Spider-Man himself Tom Holland.

“As a younger actor, you’re simply thrown in on the deep finish. You understand what you wish to do however until you’ve acquired some kind of mentor who’s been via it earlier than you haven’t acquired a clue and with Tom, I simply so occur to have one who’s the identical age as me and who I’ve recognized since I used to be 15.”

The 2 met on the Brit Faculty (different well-known alumni embody Adele and Amy Winehouse), earlier than Holland went off to Hollywood, and Osterfield to the aggressive London Academy of Dramatic Arts. Holland invited Osterfield to return over to Tinseltown and with that, the college’s conventional theatre coaching began to jar with the thrill of engaged on a Hollywood blockbuster.

“LAMDA is an incredible theatre college however it doesn’t educate you learn how to work on a movie or TV set. In the event you acquired given a name sheet at LAMDA they’d in all probability assume it was a menu or one thing.”

Osterfield is targeted on appearing however as is the case with fashionable movie star, it’s not simply his roles that his followers and followers are curious about. Half 1,000,000 folks comply with his actions on Instagram. With that form of viewers, he’s labored with the likes of Armani and Dsquared2 throughout Milan Trend Week and has simply partnered with luxury watch brand Tag Heuer.

It’s not sufficient to simply have the large title drama college and George Clooney in your CV as of late. It’s a must to have the total celeb bundle prepared, adoring followers in tow.

“It’s very unusual to me that I can add a video of me cooking baked beans at residence and that will get seen by a 100,000 folks. It’s a recreation changer. If I’m fortunate sufficient to get forged in one thing then I’ve already acquired 500,000 folks behind me,” he says.

Nonetheless, there’s no diva behaviour right here. There’s onerous work behind his castings and the social media forex, and each success Osterfield mentions is backed up by an affirmation of how fortunate he’s. He notes the down-to-earth behaviours of A-listers and fellow Marvel forged members Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans as an inspiration.

“I used to be Face-Timing my mum outdoors among the trailers in the back of the lot and one in every of them opened and out walked Robert Downey Jr. Now she’s liked him since Pure Born Killers and I gave him a passing look and he came to visit. My mum simply freaked out and spent the entire time shouting ‘oh my god’.

“There’s a standard conception that there are large divas on the market however somebody like Robert, he’s probably the most all the way down to earth man, so pleasant and accepting. It doesn’t need to be just like the stereotype.”

On the time of talking, Osterfield was within the midst of endurance training for the Virgin London Marathon as a part of his affiliation with Tag Heuer, which is the official timekeeper of the race. He’s keeping track of the watch (an Autavia in the event you’re questioning). “I signed up a bit late so I’ve been on a crash course for ten weeks however solely simply discovered that the marathon coaching app lasts for twenty-four. I’m fearful.”

Coaching provides him order in his day-to-day, he says – one thing he likes. Regardless of the Hollywood buddies and large title manufacturers backing you, being a younger actor chasing jobs will be an endurance race of its personal. “[The training] provides me a consistency within the day. These weeks the place you might have 4 or 5 auditions per week however nothing else it provides you a bit of additional oomph for these auditions.”

For all of Dickie Greenleaf’s hubris, he was successfully a gadabout wayward son. Osterfield is something however. Pushed, bold and extremely personable, he’s the mannequin of what the fashionable day younger actor must be, full with the lit Instagram feed to go together with the casting tapes.

Harrison Osterfield skilled for the Virgin Cash London Marathon 2019 and gave this interview as a part of his affiliation with TAG Heuer, the Official Timekeeper for the fourth consecutive yr. For extra info go to www.tagheuer.com, @tagheuer #DontCrackUnderPressure

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Images by Will Bremridge Styling and Artwork Path by Luke Sampson Grooming by Katie Moore

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