Louis Partridge protects George Wickham, the infamous Kuner whom he plays in the All-Star adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in production.
“Yeah, he’s a bit of shit… but I think he might mean all the nice things he says to girls before he leaves them,” suggests the Londoner somewhat optimistic.
Not only does Partridge want to provide a splash of humanity, but he even choked with a Superstrance SPF 75 sunscreen for Wickham on a recent backpacking trek around Mexico.
During a break in the strict filming schedule for the limited series, starring Emma Collin and Jack Roden, Partridge was able to narrow it down on a trip alongside his old college friends. But there was one condition. “I had to keep my face away from the sun.” Giving Wickham a nice holiday tan would be a bridge too far for Jane Austen’s classy world.
Junt, who he thought had to bail out, was an unusual break for the 22-year-old Partridge, who saw his status as an actor who has been soaring ever since his breakthrough in YA mystery franchise Enola Homes. However, it meant that he missed the Venice Film Festival debut of “Jay Kelly,” a comedy drama directed by Noah Bambach, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler.
Focusing on the aging film star, the film features Partridge playing a younger version of Billy Cradopp’s responsive actor. He recalls his rival during his formative years, but that is clearly not what Partridge experienced himself.
“For a long time, my acting nemesis was Kit Connor,” Partridge says with a laugh. It was a child star where both were budding, and when they were regularly performing the same role, and came back with their parents. “He was always in the room for auditions. It was always me and my mother and he and his mother. And my mother would roll her eyes.” But as he points out, it was settled for both himself and the “Heart Stopper” star, and they now claim to be “really good companions.”
He may have missed this year’s Venice Film Festival, but Partridge made it there in 2024 for Alfonso Quarón’s Apple TV+ series, “Disclaimer.”
He recalls the premiere, where he had to sit in his particularly steamy sex scene, “Blooming Apple CEO, Tim Cook CEO, literally in the back of me.” Perhaps “even more miserable,” he says. “But she was very professional about it,” he says calmly. For those who aren’t obsessed with Partridge’s flush valve friendly relationship status, she said her girlfriend is pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
Louis Partridge from Guinness House
Partridge is now back in the UK (and thanks to his powerful sun lotion, he admits that he “knows nothing” – he is not tanned). It will not only be able to join him for some romps around the house, with his “pride and prejudice” co-stars, but also attend the launch of Netflix’s dynasty crime drama “House of Guinness.” The series, created by Stephen Knight, an alcoholic 19th-century blend of “Peaky Blinds” and “Inheritance,” watches Partridge return to his period costume as Edward Guinness, the boss of the brewing giant and one of the key figures in the ensemble cast.
Aside from the historical trap, this role illustrates a departure from Rakish George Wickham or someone he previously painted. Edward “is a rather straightforward and calm personality and tries to hold it all down. Usually I’m a little more irresponsible for the role I play and I’m paying attention to the wind,” says Partridge. “So it felt like something very new to me.”
Due to the rapidly rising profile and acceleration of the call sheet, Partridge will also return as the love interest Tewksbury of Millie Bobby Brown from “Enola Homes 3” filmed earlier this year. “I can handle it,” he says with a laugh. As for the way he feels like “Olivia Rodrigo,” he says, “for a while. I’m so happy and I think she too, so I think everything is good in our world.”
But their world is far from normal. Rodrigo’s song “So American” was inspired by their relationship and she gave “The Boy from London” loudly on Glastonbury’s headline set this summer. Her on-stage mention of adopting British attachments of having “a pint at noon” and “sticky toffee pudding” claims that “it was my job.” However, the “Glastonbury experience” admits that it was “very, surreal” (he didn’t know that the screams were coming) and “he didn’t know that such treat and joy was also known.”
It’s not the last surreal moment for Partridge, which has recently become a new entry for Book-Makers’ James Bond, as Amazon is reportedly trying to cast a more youthful Superspy in the next post. Sadly, the next writer Knight spent too much time on the set of “The Guinness House,” so Partridge couldn’t throw an impression of 007 near him. But he still has time.
“I have to prepare something for the premiere!” he says. “Maybe I could have stuffed my martinis and been in a bar that didn’t say anything.”
