{"id":18935,"date":"2013-05-15T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=18935"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:27:31","slug":"in-profile-tom-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2013\/05\/15\/in-profile-tom-riley\/","title":{"rendered":"In Profile: Tom Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"

We shoot Da Vinci himself – or rather, the actor who plays him in Da Vinci’s Demons<\/a>, the best (only?) swashbuckling Renaissance-era drama around.<\/p>\n

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After profiling the lovely Laura Haddock<\/a> (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?<\/p>\n

Most vivid childhood memory?<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

What was the last lie you told?<\/strong> I told you I laughed the Chinese dragon off when actually I wept so much I was thrown out of the library.<\/p>\n

Fantasy or sci-fi?<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

What’s your favourite item of clothing? <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n