With 150 gigs under his belt this year alone, DJ and producer Seth Troxler has massaged many an ear with his soulful mix of Underground House and Techno. The suburban boy turned mega-DJ has played to some of the largest festivals and clubs in the world, being voted the winner of Resident Advisor’s Top 100 DJ Poll in 2012. He co-founded the DJ collective and record label Visionquest and has collaborated with Matthew Dear. The Michigan-born Renaissance man is about to launch three new record and lifestyle labels not to mention seeing success from his own pop-up BBQ restaurant in Hackney.

What was it like growing up in Detroit and did you feel as though there were options available to you?

Well I grew up out in the suburbs, 30 minutes outside of Detroit. I’m not some inner city kid but I come from a working class background and my mum works at a department store. Growing up around other affluent kids and going to a very good school definitely left me with the idea that there were so many options because my parents instilled that into me at a very young age: ‘You can do whatever you want, you just really have to go for it’.

In your opinion, what makes a good party?

Having a good vibe. As long as the music’s right and the people are in it together, it’s really perfect. You’ve also got to feel comfortable in the venue. LED screens aren’t necessary but the sound and bass have to be good. That said, I’ve had some of the best nights of my life at the worst venues, with the worst music with a great group of great friends, we were all just up to have a great time.

What is the best part of your job and the worst?

They are probably the same thing funnily enough. The best is definitely being able to see the world and meet new people, cultures, everything. I mean being a kid from Michigan there are offers for me to work I never thought I’d have in a million years. On the flipside the part that sucks about the job is having to travel to all those places. I think last year I did 150 gigs, that’s 150 different cities, having to travel 150 different times.

So has being on the road ever got the better of you?

Oh, definitely. Where I’ve wanted to quit all of this. A couple of years ago, I was engaged, that’s why I came to London, for a girl, she was a ballerina. I was travelling all the time and it broke up our relationship. I also feel I’m the most luckiest guy ever, I do live for it. I’ve almost gotten to a point where I don’t know how to relax in just one city at a time.

What do you love about London life?

Technically I don’t live here but I’ve been in London for three years. There’s a real villagey vibe going on. I love New York as well, I’m going back to live there in a week but due to fact that everything’s on top of you, you feel that competitive vibe and pressure.

Dare I ask, what do you think of chart dance music?

I’m not really so into it and I think that’s the most polite way I can put that, musically it doesn’t really touch me at all, but some stuff… I’m really happy for the disclosure guys, who are just two kids, really nice guys, out there doing their thing and they’re turning a whole generation onto dance music, which is so positive. Also my friend Ben Pearce had that track “What I Might Do” and that’s in the charts, cool beans. But when it comes to American EDM stuff and these Steve Aoki characters, this really sonic ear rape (I don’t know if I can say that!)… some of these guys are pricks and they’ve got so much money behind them. It’s just all this packaging.

It’s a business, isn’t it…

It’s a business, it has nothing to do with music and I hate that it’s reflected badly upon the culture of Electronic and House music that I’ve dedicated my life to, that’s what really annoys me.

Who is your icon?

Someone who’s an icon who also happens to be a really good friend is Craig Richards. Craig is my man, who’s been in this music for so long, before he was in Tyrant with Sasha and Lee Burridge as a resident at Fabric and is probably one of the most astute music collectors I’ve met in my life, across all genres. An unknown, silent icon in many ways but for me he’s so iconic and the epitome of cool.

Which DJs are you loving right now?

I love Ben UFO. He’s dope. He’s taking a risk and that’s what I really enjoy. Ben’s an incredibly reckless and talented DJ as well as being a really kind person. It’s amazing how many people are out there not playing chart toppers.

If you weren’t a DJ what would you be? I know you’re very keen on cooking.

I went to school for advertising and graphic design so I would probably have done that for a while but I just hate the corporate side of it, you don’t really ever get to do anything cool. I’d probably be a cook. That’s going to be my next career: owning restaurants and making bars. I just like to make people happy. When this is all over, when I want it to be over. We already have a restaurant called Smokey Tails and I’m trying to launch a new sub-brand of that, Buddy’s, a dive bar.

So what would you cook for Wonderland?

Well you did just taste my meatloaf

I can’t deny it [laughs]

In winter I would cook you guys something homey and saucy! I’m all about home cooking because that’s what you want at the end of the day, something that your nan made you.

What’s happening for you right now?

I’m in the middle of starting three record labels and the first releases will come out during Winter Music Conference. One is a pop label called Soft Touch with my friend Ben and he is creating an Indie lifestyle brand. The biggest thing I’m working on this year is called Tuskegee with The Martinez Brothers and it’s a platform for us to make clothes and release music from an urban American perspective, taking a lot of our heritage as black and Latinos on board. We want to bring back what it is to be young, American and kind of from the streets. So I’ve got the Indie rock label that’s ‘Suburban Seth’, Tuskegee which is the ‘Detroit Seth’, I’ve got this other thing called Play it Say it that’s just me putting out club hits, bombs, something that will destroy a stadium, which is hard to find at a record store.

So finally describe your sense of style.

I’ve got this whole trick. I like to look like an American Conservative but being a rebel so I’ve got this shirt that says “Rush Limbaugh for President” who I think is like the biggest American Conservative prick in politics. I’m wearing it so it’s funny, you know? Buttoned up shirt, tight jeans, Docsiders: Connecticut.

The ‘Seth Toxler Goes Clubing’ tour begins in early 2014 in which he will play Circo Loco (Ibiza) on a ten date run of shows starting in mid June and running through to the closing in October; Fabric (London) where he will play once a quarter throughout 2014 beginning on Saturday 15th February; Trouw (Amsterdam) in which he play a quarterly residency at Amsterdam’s best loved underground institution alongside some of his favourite DJ’s starting 21st February; Output (New York) another quarterly residency starting on 22nd March. He will also be playing multiple gigs throughout the year at other venues that have played a key part in supporting him over the years like Panoramabar (Berlin), Womb (Tokyo), Warung (Itaji), Lux (Lisbon), Fuse (Brussels), Robert Jonson (Offenbach), D’Edge (Sao Paulo), Sub Club (Glasgow), Bobbeaman (Munich), Spybar (Chicago), Coco Rico (Riccione), Stereo (Montreal), Mint Club (Leeds), Sound (LA) and Nordstern (Basel).

Words: Ellie Sigman

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What is your favourite recent innovation?
Does an app count? Cause if it does then whatsapp definitely, it’s saved some friendships that I would have been broken hearted to lose.

What do you think is the most overrated book or film of all time?
Catcher in the rye, I’ve read it a few times and still don’t understand how it’s the great American novel.

What food do you despise the most?
I eat pretty much anything, but smaller versions of larger things freak me out. Like poussins. Also the idea of a chicken omelette, that’s like eating mother and baby together.

What is your biggest food guilty pleasure?
Salt and vinegar peanuts, or crack nuts as I have come to call them.

What’s the best present you’ve ever received?
Two friends of mine before I went away on a job recently declared it national Katie McGrath day and gave me a box of survival goodies for the trip, it made me cry like a little girl.

Worst job you’ve ever had in a non-acting context?
I’ve been pretty lucky with all my jobs; had fun at most of them really.

Eccentric fear or dislike?
Having anything touching behind my ears. Hair clips or anything. It’s like nails on a blackboard, I can’t stand it.

Whats your favourite TV show?
Great British bake off, it’s amazing! The drama! Will it rise? Won’t it?! Will it be a good bake?! Will it have a soggy bottom?! Who knows!!!?? Epic telly viewing. And I usually can’t stand reality TV.

Whats your favourite item of clothing?
An old grey men’s Gap cashmere sweater that I’ve had for years and that comes everywhere with me, it’s my ultimate piece of comfort clothing.

What is the last book you read?
The Orphan master’s Son by Adam Johnson

 
Photographer Jessie Craig

Fashion Editor Francesca Turner

Hair Yoshi Miyazaki at Untitled Artists London

Makeup Louise Dartford at Stella Creative

Production Seona Taylor-Bell

Words Paul Craig 

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WONDERLAND: Hi Sophie! What is the oldest article of clothing you own?

SOPHIE KENNEDY-CLARK: Hell, I could have a stall or five at Portobello market with the amount of vintage clothing that I have collected over the years from around the globe! Alas, the piece I cherish the most is actually a tartan flannel shirt of my mother’s from the ’70s. She always smiles when she sees me in it and that usually prompts a story or two from days gone by when she wore it. I like that.

What is the worst job you’ve had in a non-acting context?

My father is always threatening to get me working in his fish factory, which gives me enough drive to keep this acting malarky afloat. I once worked in a vintage shop which was pretty disastorous – I got WAY too attached to certain items, was constantly playing dress up and my shop floor manner had little to be desired when met with the rudeness of some customers. 

What favourite song this week ?

Dream a little dream by Mam Cass.

If you had to pick one way to travel for the rest of your life, and you were unable to use any other form of travel, what’d you pick?

Trains, a big ol’ fashioned steam train…and I would like to drive it too please. Hold on – does this bind me to one continent? If so I change my answer to magic train for international purposes – you understand.

What is your favourite movie?

It would be a toss up between Easy Rider, Annie Hall, Carry on up the Kyber and Happy Gilmore.

What is the last dream you had?

I have a dastardly recurring nightmare. I’m standing in front of a stair case and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to climb them. I just can’t remember how to climb stairs I’VE FORGOTTEN and it’s so simple!?! I stare at them frustrated and anxious. Sometimes I’m being chased and in the dream this happens and it’s horrible. Or at least it could be but I usually wake up at the point of capture. I know…I’m a therapist’s field day.

Last great film you saw in theatres that blew you away?

Another Earth. I saw it a while ago and I’ve seen other films since but that one REALLY blew me away…oh my God the end….stop reading this interview and go and watch it immediately.

 What do you think is the most overrated book or film of all time?

Of all time….err that’s a big ask…people rate things for their own reasons so I’m not bold enough to pass judgment.

What is your worst type of food?

I will eat nothing on a plate where there are mushrooms lurking – and mushrooms really lurk. Whats worse is I’m veggie – and folk love to throw a handful of the little rotters into veggie dishes.

What is the worst tourist activity you’ve ever experienced?

I don’t like being on boats – specifically at sea so any sea boating activities go down like a lead balloon in my book. Having said that I wasn’t too averse to the odd Gondola this year at the Venice Film Festival.

Sophie wears velvet top by Rochas and silk pyjamas by Eres. 

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Photography by Jessie Craig

Styling by Francesca Turner

Fashion Assistance by Giulia Oddi

Hair by Noriko Takayama at Untitled Artists London using TIGI

Make-up by Natsumi Narita at Untitled Artists London using MAC

Nails by Ami Streets at LMC Worldwide using The New Black

Productiob by Seona Taylor-Bell

Words by Paul Craig

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If you could choose any language besides English to have a perfect singing voice, what language and style of music would you choose?

Italian. Everyone loves an Italian Opera!

What is the most everyday kind of activity that you’re the worst at? I.e. cooking, general sense of direction, remembering to text people back, tidying up after yourself?

Texting people back. Especially my Mum! I’m terrible.

If you had to choose one type of article of clothing that you could get for free for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Shoes because they are seriously expensive to buy.

Most ridiculous/surprising/baffling style choice you’ve ever witnessed? (in London or elsewhere)

I live in London! I see interesting choices in style every day.

What form of travel/transportation do you most detest?

The tube, in summer, when there are signal failures. Horrendous!

If you could have a wild night out in 1920’s Paris with either Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, who would you pick? 

Ernest Hemingway for sure

Song that you’ve probably listened to (by choice) more than any other.

Tracey Chapman ‘fast car’

Would you rather (successfully) rob a bank for millions, or steal a priceless piece of art from a gallery/private collection? If you’d choose the art answer, would you take any specific piece? (F.Y.I. No-one is physically harmed in either hypothetical scenario). 

The Mona Lisa. I’d put it in my bathroom. Imagine being greeted by her every time you go to the toilet!

If you could choose one film to have seen being made in person, complete with all the highs and/or lows of the shoot/development, what film would you choose and why? 

‘On The Waterfront’ just so I could follow Marlon Brando around set. I’d make him cups of tea and we’d become mates!

Coolest and/or most stylish film character (or actor) of all time? 

Marlon Brando. He is the coolest man to ever have lived

If you could choose any work of art to call your own, and you’re magically transported to the time of it’s creation or it’d be erased and you’d be able to create it now (and benefited with the original creator’s talents) whether it’s a painting, an album, a film, a performance in a film, a book, a screenplay e.t.c. What would you pick?

I’d love to take the credit for the complete works and copyright of Shakespeare! The complete works of Howard!!!

If you could pick one thing from all of your travels that you wish you’d be able to have access to in London and/or a part of England, what would it be?

Access to the Lake District. I grew up walking round there and miss all the tarns and beautiful scenery up there

Worst film you’ve ever watched in a cinema?

I choose my films very carefully so I avoid this problem!

1. Shirt by COS.

2. Sweater by COS and trousers and brogues both by All Saints.

Photography by Jessie Craig

Fashion Editor: Francesca Turner

Production by Seona Taylor-Bell

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Style icon?

I love what Chloe Moretz wears, she’s one of my very good friends and every time I see her she just looks so like…neat. She always wears really cool skirts and trousers that are like rolled up at the end. She’s just really well put together — she takes a lot of care into what she wears, which I think is important. But then she’s also one of my very good friends, which does make me kinda biased. I love what Keira Knightley wears as well, she’s got such a particular figure, but is also quite tall so she can get away with these big shapes, like she can wear really tight leggings then wear a really baggy cardigan and she can do the leather trousers..she’s got a cool style I like it.

Other hobbies?

I do a lot of music — I sing, I play piano and I write music as well — I’d say that’s my biggest one

Best present?

When I did my first film my friends all chipped in together and bought me an iPod, and they engraved it on the back and wrote “Ella we all love you good luck on your movie” and it was just really lovely.

Superpower of choice?

I change my mind about this all the time. I think it might be fun to be invisible. Pranking people…the stuff I could do to my three younger brothers, payback for everything they’ve put me through! Or flying, flying would be fun.

Wow. What’s the best prank they’ve ever pulled on you?

My brother once woke me up by opening up my eyelids and spraying water into my eyes with a water gun, and I can tell you I wear contact lenses. Thankfully I remembered to take them out before going to bed — luckily — but when you wake up and you have poor vision already and you have water in your eyes and you can’t see… it can be quite stressful as I thought I’d gone blind. It was about five in the morning and you could just hear me screaming, and my brother on the floor, laughing hysterically.

Most stylish character played?

Probably my part in Kick Ass 2. I mean all the other parts I played — I was quite grungy in one, which was cool but I had so much eye-liner I looked like a panda and I put a green streak in my hair and ripped up jeans and a big baggy t-shirt, etc. But in Kick Ass they put me in short skirts and kind of American pretty — and I’ve never played a pretty character so it was fun to be dressed up in pink and stuff.

If you were a superhero where would your hideout be a-la super man’s fortress of solitude?

This is quite a particular answer. You know in Old Street they have those two trains by the billboard? I was driving past and I saw a guy smoking like on top of the train so that is where I’d have it — it’d be inside of a train, I’d want it somewhere quite high up so I can watch things, ’cause no-one thinks to look up do they? Somewhere high up.

Biggest pet peeve?

When I’m speaking and people “sshh” me, that upsets me. My brothers do it so much. I’ll be saying something and they’ll go ‘Sh!’, and it goes with the hand gesture as well, it makes me want to strangle them. I also don’t like sharing forks or cutlery, or taking food off my plate. I don’t like when people take food off my plate, like if you want that food you could order that, it’s my food. Like if I offer it it’s fine, but don’t take it without asking — it’s food, its important to me!

All time to co-star with male/female?

Marilyn Monroe and Elvis. If you co-star with Marilyn Monroe and Elvis you’re pretty much set. Also because there’s so much hype about them I just would want to know what they’d actually be like. I’d wanna get to know them. You know, like having Elvis on Facebook, or Marilyn on your phone hahaha.

Embarrassing style choice from years before?

It wasn’t even like 4-5 years ago, that’s how embarrassing it is, it was from about 2 years ago I used to wear these hand warmers — but like the little ones so there black and kinda goth-y, and I used to wear them everywhere. I used to wear black beanies and just wear them indoors even on a hot summer’s day. I don’t even know why I wore them besides I thought they looked cool. So embarrassing. You know when you see kids who try to colour coordinate everything? That was me too. I used to have clips in my hair that’d have little bows on them, and they’d be green-purple-green-purple-green-purple going all the way to the back of my head. Also pink and brown, which is also a great color combination (laughs).

Three wishes?

People always go world peace, end poverty, so pretending that isn’t an option, pretending war doesn’t exist. I’d wish I won the lottery, I think everyone’s gotta wish that. I’d wish that I owned an ostrich because my grandma rode an ostrich when she went to Australia, so I think if I owned an ostrich I’d be able to ride it to work everyday. And my third would be lifetime good health for friends and family…and myself (laughs).

See Ella in Kick Ass 2 with Chloe Moretz, Jim Carrey and Aaron Johnson, out in theatres now.

Words: Paul Craig
Photographer: Jessie Craig
Stylist: Francesca Turner
Producer: Seona Taylor-Bell
Grooming: Noriko Takayama at UnTitled Artists London using TIGI
Make-up: Noako Scintu at The London Style Agency using Dr Hauschka
Fashion Assistance: Giulia Oddi

Velvet dress by Christopher Kane.
T-Shirt by James Perse, navy skirt by Acne Studios at Liberty and necklace by Dominic Jones.

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Middlesbrough girl Faye Marsay snagged the lead role of Anna Neville in BBC1 period epic The White Queen fresh out of drama school and is on the rise. After all, Anna Neville didn’t claw her way to the throne for nothing – some of that queenly steeliness definitely comes from Marsay herself. Since The White Queen, Marsay’s landed roles in Fresh Meat and ITV wartime drama The Bletchley Circle – but we’ll always have a spot in our hearts for the once and future Queen of England.

Who is your style icon? I like what Ellen Page wears. Sometimes she wears like beautiful dresses, and then other times she just looks like a tomboy. That kind of vibe I think, like casual, smart, and then just whack out a beautiful dress.

Any hobbies? I like playing the drums. Or just hanging out with my mates really. I just like being around people. People person. Not all the time, but you know.

What’s the coolest gift you’ve ever received? Probably when my parents took me to Disneyland in Florida. I was about 9 or 10, my mum and dad told us and a week later we were on a plane. It was that age where Disneyland is like the best thing in the world.

If you could co-star with any actor or actress all the time, who’d it be? Kevin Spacey, or Charlize Theron… Or Robert De Niro, loads of them you know what I mean? Let’s go with Kevin Spacey.

What is your most embarrassing fashion faux-pas? At school we used to have our hair tied back in a really tight ponytail. Your hair would be scraped back in a pony with a scrunchy and you’d have two bits coming down over our foreheads that would just be hairsprayed – these two antlers, like antennae. I also had a coke-can fringe before, horrible fringe… With a scrunchy on top.

Biggest pet peeve? Slow walkers. Especially living in London. People that walk dead slow.

What’s the worst pick-up line you’ve ever heard? “Are those space pants because your ass is out of this world.”Awful.

What’s the bigger deal breaker, bad teeth or B.O.? Bad teeth.

What is most stylish character you’ve played? None of them really… Probably Anne Neville because she’s in the court, so she’s got the most regal style. Anne Neville, White Queen.

Three wishes (and no wishing for unlimited wishes). Mum and Dad sorted forever. Just sorted. Emotionally, healthwise, financially. To be in a play at the national theatre. And to be able to drum with Dave Grohl would be pretty cool as well. Art, passion, family.

If you could punch any animal in the face, what would it be? Snake.

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Images: Jessie Craig
Styling: Francesca Turner
Words: Paul Craig
Producer: Seona Taylor-Bell

Hair: Noriko Takayama using TIGI
Makeup: Naoko Scintu at The London Style Agency using DR HAUSCHKA
Fashion Assistance: Giulia Oddi

Look 1: Bug print pencil skirt by MCQ ALEXANDER MCQUEEN and T-shirt with elasticated collar by MARNI
Look 2: Sweatshirt by MCQ ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

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Once described as the Ophelia of Skins – but twice as mad – Cassie (Hannah Murray) was one of the most beloved characters off the iconic E4 show. Who can forget that scene with Sid on the trampoline? Celluloid teen magic, we tell you. To mark Cassie’s return to our screens in Skins: Pure, we caught up with actress Hannah Murray to find out what she’s been up to, and what it’s like resurrecting your best-known character.

You actually worked pretty closely with Skins creator Bryan Elsley on your episode. What was that like?

Bryan kind of knew I’d want to be involved in a creative level. We’d meet up every month or so and to start off with what was very much just general chats about the character, his ideas about the story, my experiences being 23 and living in London, and my friends’ experiences, various things we both felt it should be about and what the themes should be.

Other than being able to contribute to the script, why were you so keen to revisit Cassie?

It was that challenge to play the same person, that that much time has passed so they really aren’t the same person. Anyone from 18-23 changes massively. I felt finding the right balance between the new her and the old her was really interesting; it gave me this freedom, really. Whatever I needed those five years to be they could be them.

You’ve gone on to appear in Game of Thrones, another cult TV show – tell us about your role as Gilly.

It’s kind of about this journey, her leaving with the baby. What I love about it is that everything is so stripped down to the most basic of emotions for my character. She wants to save this baby’s life and nothing else really matters, it’s instinctive and animalistic. The world she was in was so shrunken down. When she leaves, that’s the first time she’s ever left — that’s one of the things that’s so beautiful about her journey.

Whereas Michael’s my age, Stuart is so well established as a creative person. They’re both very exciting people to work with. You just feel very lucky to be on someone’s first film, to be with them at the start of their career. And they’re both people who I think are really talented I’m really excited to see what they do next. When I remember my first job, there’s something special about that that you don’t quite get back and to be in someone’s first project you feel so happy. I just felt so lucky to be part of such a special experience for them both

What kind of characters would you love to play?

I’d love to play a baddie. I just think it seems really dishonest to try and make characters likeable. When I read scripts where you can see that they’re working so hard to make you like the characters, then the characters feels to me like they’re no longer real people. I’m really fascinated by watching people do despicable things. So many people are very selfishly motivated. I think you can learn a lot more from watching people do wrong things than watching people do right things.

So, what future plans do you have?

I always read interviews when I was younger with really successful actors and they’d go from job to job to job, and I always thought that’d be amazing. I mean it’s difficult on a practical level, you don’t spend that much time at home, but I think that’s why we all want to do this, to be rushing around the place playing three different places at once. I’d like to do as many different things as I can do. Film and theatre and television, everything mixed up!

Images: Jessie Craig
Fashion Editor: Sylvester Yiu
Words: Paul Craig
Hair: Jay Zhang at ERA using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE
Makeup: Carol Hayes at DWMANAGEMENT using KIEHL’S and CHANEL
Videographer: Kiel Devalera 
Producer: Seona Taylor-Bell

Look 1
Patchwork dress by JACOB BIRGE, printed dress by MALENE ODDERSHEDE BACH and white diamond loop necklace by SOPHIE BREITMEYER

Look 2
Military jacket by FAITH CONNEXION, T-shirt with embroidery detail by MALENE ODDERSHEDE BACH, black skinny jeans by SUPERFINE and shoes and socks both talent’s own

Look 3
Dress by FAITH CONNEXION, patchwork skirt by JACOB BIRGE and sapphire hoop necklace by SOPHIE BREITMEYER

Look 4 (video only)
Sleeveless black leather jacket by FAITH CONNEXION, printed dress by MALENE ODDERSHEDE BACH and rose gold bracelet and white gold bracelet both by SOPHIE BREITMEYER

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When we sat down with Jonathan Bailey, we weren’t sure what, or who, to expect — the goofball anti-academic in the short-lived (and well loved) Campus, the pensive and radical thinker Leonardo Da Vinci (yep, he’s another one) in BBC’s Leonardo, or the hardline budding journo in ITV’s hit Broadchurch. Turns out, he’s just a really cool, talented dude — it’s not called acting for nothing.

What’s the one item of clothing you’d never wear?

A catsuit. Or clogs.

Leonardo da Vinci or Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Da Vinci. The original super hero.

When are you happiest?

When listening to music on the move.

What’s your earliest memory?

Throwing a cup of ribena on my sister.

Comedy or drama?

Comedy – nice and easy to dip into.

What instrument would you play in a band?

I’d play my recently purchased cello… badly.

Photographer: Jessie Craig
Director: Joe Connor
Producer: Seona Taylor-Bell
Fashion Editor: Francesca Turner

Grooming: Elliot Bssila
Shoot assistant

Look 1: T-shirt by American Apparel, trainers by Vans, chinos, Raybans and jacket (found in a tree at a festival) all Jonathan’s own
Look 2: Yellow sweatshirt by Acne at Matches

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After profiling the lovely Laura Haddock (aka Lucrezia in Da Vinci’s Demons), we got a hankering to shoot the bad boy genius of the series itself, namely the actor Tom Riley. We weren’t initially sold on the idea of a leather-jacketed Da Vinci, but the Kent boy really sold us on the idea of a sexy polymath. Brains over brawn every time, right?

Most vivid childhood memory? I remember being at a story-reading in a local library as a 5 year old. It was a story about a dragon. Halfway through, a bunch of local students burst into the room dressed as a Chinese dragon. Despite being five, I laughed it off.

What was the last lie you told? I told you I laughed the Chinese dragon off when actually I wept so much I was thrown out of the library.

Fantasy or sci-fi? Sci-fi. The narrative rules in that world make for stronger story-telling, whereas fantasy can rely on magic to get you out of corners. If someone says that the trolls are coming over the Bridge of Orthonolingoshire I tend to switch off.

What’s your favourite item of clothing? I have a beautiful leather biker jacket from All Saints with sheep wool lining that is both awesome to look at and warm to be in.

Are you a lover or a fighter? A lover. Every time it looks like I might be getting into a fight I just kiss the guy till he surrenders.

What would you rather die without having? No material possession is better than life itself.

Marmite or Nutella? Nutella wins the thick brown paste war.

What’s your biggest fear? That I’m going to get found out.

What would you do if you were king? Be quietly smug in the fact that I had Helen Mirren waiting for me at home.

Favourite co-star? It changes from job to job but I have a very soft spot for three terrific actresses, who also became three of my best friends. Jemima Rooper, Imogen Poots and Laura Haddock.

Images: Jessie Craig
Words: Zing Tsjeng
Styling: Francesca Turner

Producer: Seona Taylor-Bell
Video: Joe Connor

Look 1: Patterned jumper by DSQUARED2, trousers by ALL SAINTS and brogue boots by GRENSON
Look 2: Knitted oversized sweater by MCQ and jeans, boots and necklace Tom’s own

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First thing you would do if you were PM? Get rid of parking tickets!

Where did you grow up? Hertfordshire.

Favourite comfort food? Salt and vinegar chipsticks.

Earliest childhood memory? My dad and my grandad teaching me how to water ski when I was about four or five, with a tiny pair of red and yellow Daffy Duck skis.

Dream dinner party guests? David Brent, the cast of Bridesmaids, Paul Rudd, my nan and Kenny G for some sweet saxophone sounds.

Last dream you had? I dreamt I’d just got a new spaniel puppy. Gutted when I woke up and I didn’t.

Worst date you’ve ever been on? It was a cinema date – we went to see Moulin Rouge – and it was all going great until I panicked and had to leave because I thought I had the disease Nicole Kidman has in the movie. Tuberculosis. Wasn’t even possible!

Your greatest fear? My family getting hurt.

Worst personality trait? I’m very indecisive!

Most expensive thing you’ve ever bought? Erm… My house.

Producer Seona Taylor-Bell
Video Kiel Devalera

Look 1: Multicoloured leather skirt by HOUSE OF HOLLAND and pink shirt Laura’s own
Look 2: Patterned kilt by J.W. ANDERSON at HARVEY NICHOLS and ‘Team Azzedine’ T-shirt by LESPLUS DORES NYC at BROWNS
Look 3: Patterned dungarees by MOSCHINO CHEAP & CHIC and sweater by CARHARTT

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