Daryl McCormack possesses a résumé that would have most young actors green with envy.

In 2019, the Irish star had a recurring role in the Cillian Murphy-led Peaky Blinders as Shelby gang member Isaiah Jesus. Stephen Knight’s smoky, Birmingham-set period drama was a bona fide hit. McCormack had other various successes up until this point, including a part in A Very English Scandal with Hugh Grant and Barnaby Thompson’s comedy thriller Pixie , but his undoubtable charm and humility were yet to land him a major leading role.

Then Emma Thompson needed a male sex worker for her Nancy Stokes in the 2022 dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande , and McCormack had liftoff. “Doing that film with Emma, being able to hold a film like that with someone like Emma,” he says to The Hollywood Rep

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