Breaking Baz: Billy Howle Prepares To Play An Angry Young Man On Stage & Dishes On The Hush-Hush Movie About How The Middle-East Became A Tinderbox
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Billy Howle is so at home playing characters wading through pools of anger and angst that he had an “alien feeling” while playing idle rich boy Benji Winbury in Netflix hit The Perfect Couple.
The British actor, almost as a counterpoint to the Nantucket frippery on display in the adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s chart-topping beach read, can now be found on the stage of the prestigious Almeida Theatre in Islington, North London.
There he opens tonight, taking on the theatre’s original angry young man, Jimmy Porter, a mammoth career-defining role, in a revival of John Osborne’s 1956 classic Look Back in Anger, which takes place in a dreary attic apartment where Jimmy rails at a society that has become “sick.” “There’s all this talk about mental health,” says Howle, “and let’s face it, the guy has anger issues.
It’s in the title of the play.” He excels at portraying such characters, deftly exhuming their humanity; the more tortured the soul, the better.
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