The British star is filming House of Guinness, an upcoming Netflix original series created by Steven Knight, the man behind Peaky Blinders. Louis Partridge explains that he is playing a young Edward Guinness, effortlessly transitioning into a spot-on Dublin accent as he speaks: Because it’s based, in 1869, posh, Dublin, RP, he’d talk like that, of course. It is not as you hear today of Dublin is like [boxer] Conor McGregor.
As you go on, you’ll quickly learn that the young man really likes impressions. His skills are getting him more and more meaty roles. Louis Partridge got his lucky break in Netflix mystery film Enola Holmes alongside Millie Bobby Brown in the lead role of her lover.
In the meantime at only 21, he has been Daemon in decisions for Boyle, King, and will take a role in an untitled Jay Kelly film of Baumbach next year accompanying Clooney, Gerwig, Dern, and Sandler. (Oh — and he is the boyfriend of American pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo.)
He can also now off Alfonso Cuaron, whose film, “Gravity,” made headlines because it was the first movie made using the digital process. In the middle of the Mexican Apple TV+ miniseries Disclaimer, it is Cate Blanchett, who acts as a famous documentalist Catherine Ravenscroft.
She has a directionless son, Robert’s son, Kodi Smit-McPhee, from their marriage but things take an interesting turn when a book about The Perfect Stranger is delivered to Catherine and which reveals something shocking – she had an affair with a young man Jonny, 19 years of age, Jonathan Brigstocke, (louisPartridge).
In the first six episodes, the infidelity is confabulated by Jonathan’s mother, Nancy (Lesley Manville), who pins his drowning—one of the show’s most pivotal events—on Blanchett’s character, whose heated romp with Jonathan the night before ended with his drowning in the pool. Her husband, Kevin Kline, had published the book and relishes the warmth of the fire he stoked in his wife’s heart. He looks for vengeance for his now-slain wife who never got over the death of their only child.
In the season finale though, Cuarón reveals his audience a wholly contrasting Jonathan from the timid teenage boy obviously forced into making an erotic spectacle out of a provocative young Catherine portrayed by Leila George in reminder flashbacks.
The other version, in what turns out to be the truth, is far from the Jonathan in Nancy’s mind and writing: He was a rapist; the man mugged a woman, George, after her husband had to travel to Italy for a business trip. That flip-switch with the louis Partridge is creepy, and the level of treachery that audiences feel themselves is proof of his, and Cuarón’s, efforts.
Below, a deeply modest louis Partridge talks to THR about getting into the mindset of a predator, Cuarón’s unique directorial approach, and finding himself in and among the biggest names in showbiz: In fact, at the end, it seems to mean less and less to me because I have been working with some great people. You would expect that to imply lack of self doubt yet it was amazing and a true prove that confidence has to be internal.
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