This week’s 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Leo Woodall. Following his role as Tom Hollander’s pretend-nephew Jack in The White Lotus Season 2, Woodall landed a lead role in One Day, the Netflix series adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel of the same name.
Woodall tells us how he learned he was auditioning while on The White Lotus set, so immediately watched One Day‘s previous movie adaptation, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, and read the book.
In One Day, he stars as Dexter, a privileged student who befriends Emma (Ambika Mod) at University. Over the ensuing years, we meet Dexter and Emma on the same day annually—July 15th—as Emma struggles to find fulfilling work and Dexter goes somewhat off the rails. The ebb and flow of their friendship and romance creates a decades-long ‘will they-won’t they’ layered with a deeply nostalgic soundtrack and settings.
In this episode, we get into the posters on Woodall’s childhood bedroom wall, the first movie he ever saw in the theater and the celebrity run-in that rendered him speechless and starstruck.
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