There’s a disarming normalcy to Callum Turner , the roguish Brit with gray-blue eyes that match his zip-up track jacket. Those same eyes crinkle at the edges as he smiles, awkwardly angling his Zoom camera and politely shooing away a hotel employee from the sterile Los Angeles suite in which he sits. Humble but cheeky, Turner speaks so casually that it takes a beat too long to realize that when he talks about texting with “Daniel,” he means Daniel Day-Lewis .

He and the three-time Oscar winner are buddies, says Turner. “We would speak on the phone and text each other movies that the other person should see. We built a nice little friendship. He said something to me that was really freeing, actually: Dance to the rhythm of your own beat. If you want to be a soap star, be a soap star

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