With his playmate Aimee Lou Wood, they themselves imagined this passage which was so important to the actor. “Eric will have the end that I dreamed for him,” he assures.
Dear friend posing for the new number British Vogue. The opportunity to talk about Barbie, by Greta Gerwig, in which he will play this summer one of the Ken alongside Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu or John Cena. For this film, he will also find Emma Mackey and Connor Swindells, two of his partners in his hit series. Sex Education. At 30, the British-Rwandan comedian reveals that Gosling was one of the first to congratulate him when he got the role of the new Doctor Who, while they were filming in this blockbuster inspired by Mattel’s dolls.
For Ncuti Gatwa, “Barbie is already a cultural phenomenon, even though it hasn’t even been released yet”
During the long interview interspersed with a photo shoot, he also talks about Sex Education, and reveals that he himself imagined a key scene for his character, Eric. The Netflix series will end soon for him with season 4, and the interpreter of the hero’s best friend, Otis (Asa Butterfield), has invested more than ever in this sequel.
“When the first season aired, he says first, I lived in Tottenham and I can’t tell you the number of young guys from the neighborhood who approached me to say to me: ‘Hey! I love Eric, you know?’, Wow! I was blown away. Or I would meet people at the gym, in a room full of bodybuilders and former prisoners, and they would come and say to me: ‘Eric is my favorite character.’ Or ‘It’s my girlfriend’s favourite.’ I answered them: ‘Don’t mess around!’ It was so cool, because I could see how much the show opened people’s minds.”
Openly homosexual, Eric is an important character in the show, who has to manage his student life while advising his friend, and who comes from a very religious family, where homosexuality is taboo. He will be joined for the final season by Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen and Slim, After Yang…). He does not yet want to say what their on-screen relationship will be, but he teases a nice ending for his character.
“He will have the end that I dreamed for him, he says. All the elements that we have put in place will overlap. And there will be a scene that I particularly fought for. I did everything to get her into the show, and that’s it, she’s there, which is great. Aimee (Lou Wood, who has played alongside him since the start of Sex Educationeditor’s note) wrote it with me. We were still working on it the day before we shot it, at 3am. I had never written for Eric before, so it seemed huge to me, but this scene seemed so important to me in relation to his evolution and his different relationships. She was necessary to the story.”
If he had not yet participated in the writing of Sex Education strictly speaking, he admits having put a lot of himself in this young man who lives his sexuality in broad daylight, who wears glittery makeup or extravagant outfits. While highlighting its origins.
“There are producers who have come to tell me that my way of speaking would not be understandable for part of the white public, he remembers. I told them that I was not talking to white people, but that I wanted another group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what they want too. They understood. You have, we all learned lessons with this job. Constantly.”
Season 4 of Sex Education will be viewable on Netflix in the fall. We will know at that time what was the scene that was so important to Ncuti Gatwa …
Doctor Who : premiere images of Ncuti Gatwa en dandy des sixties
