Luke Pasqualino talks new tasks, pasta-making, his love of F1 and filming awkward intercourse scenes (Image: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
British heartthrob Luke Pasqusalino scorching to fame in TV’s Skins, stole hearts as D’Artagnan in The Musketeers and is about to star in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. The actor, 33, spills the beans on his foodie upbringing, the artwork of capturing intercourse scenes and his wacky new hairdressing whodunnit film, Medusa Deluxe.
Medusa Deluxe is a sort of loopy movie.
That’s one of many causes that attracted me to it, as a result of it was like nothing I’d ever learn earlier than. I discovered it actually humorous.
It’s a darkish comedy/type of homicide thriller set backstage at a regional hairdressing competitors. And it’s stuffed with metaphor and stuff, with reference to how hair dies as quickly because it’s minimize off our heads and whatnot. It was simply one thing that I felt I needed to do. And as I’m from a household of hairdressers, I felt like I knew that world slightly bit.
Had been each your dad and mom hairdressers?
No, simply my dad. It was by no means my Plan B, however my sister adopted in his footsteps, and I’ve obtained aunties and uncles and different cousins who’ve all taken the hairdressing route.
My dad was a ‘platform artist’. He used to fly everywhere in the world to show totally different hairstyles and whatnot that had been created by Paul Mitchell or the opposite firms that he was working for.
With a household of hairdressers, Luke felt he needed to do Medusa Deluxe (Image: Getty / iStockphoto)
Medusa Deluxe is a darkish comedy/type of homicide thriller set backstage at a regional hairdressing competitors (Image: MUBI)
My dad nonetheless cuts my hair until I’m away engaged on a job or in a contract on a venture the place he’s not allowed to the touch it. It’s a pleasant bonding expertise. We’ll simply sit and chat and giggle and snort. It’s all good.
Do you reside in concern of going bald?
I wouldn’t say I reside in concern – I appear to be holding out to this point! However clearly, , as actors and artists, our look does make up a variety of our work. So I’ll maintain my fingers crossed.
What celeb lookalike do you get mistaken for?
I get Ollie Locke from Made In Chelsea quite a bit. He’s a great good friend of mine as properly and I do know he’s a really pretty individual. So, I don’t actually thoughts that.
Luke will get mistaken for Ollie Locke, see a resemblance? (Image: Lia Toby/BFC/Getty Pictures)
Luke says he wasn’t something like his character Freddie in Skins (Image: Richard Saker/REX/Shutterstock)
What present do you principally get recognised from?
It’s nonetheless Skins. Skins was the very first job that I had after I turned 18. I feel that’s nonetheless the present that I get recognised from essentially the most, simply due to its cult following. There was nothing else prefer it on the time, so it stands out in lots of people’s minds.
As a teen, have been you a laid-back dope-smoker like your Skins character?
No, I wasn’t something like Freddie in any respect actually. I didn’t skateboard, I wasn’t a smoker, I didn’t do any of that type of stuff. However I feel the loving, caring, delicate aspect of Freddie is extra like who I’m as an individual.
Your loved ones is Italian however you grew up in Peterborough. Did you’ve gotten an idyllic foodie childhood?
Not simply my childhood! It’s nonetheless like that now! My mum’s aspect are from Naples and my dad’s aspect from Sicily. Gathering across the desk for large Italian household dinners with pastas and meat and fish and antipasto and wine was an enormous a part of my rising up and who I’m.
Luke is a self-described ‘home made pasta freak’ (Image: Getty)
What’s your personal signature dish?
I’m a little bit of a home made pasta freak. Making home made pasta is so, really easy. It’s mainly simply 100g of 00 flour and one egg per individual. It’s one thing me and my sister used to do throughout the faculty holidays when my dad and mom have been at work and our grandparents used to babysit us.
My grandmother would make massive batches of dough to maintain us entertained and we’d roll it out and make totally different shapes of pasta. I haven’t obtained youngsters of my very own but, however I take pleasure in getting my niece and nephew concerned. To maintain these – I don’t know if I’d name them traditions – however these actions alive is necessary.
You’re at the moment capturing Rivals. Is it going to be a complete bonkfest?!
I imply, it’s a Jilly Cooper e book… So, it’s not going to be as PG as one thing like, let’s say, The Musketeers was, ? I’ve learn the scripts, and I do know what goes on in them. However it would depend upon what they find yourself conserving within the remaining edit. In order that’s all I can say and we’ll simply take it from there, I assume.
Do you thoughts doing ‘intimate’ scenes?
Rivals isn’t going to be as PG as The Musketeers(Credit: BBC/Dusan Martincek)
Luke Pasqualino with Skins co-star Kaya Scodelario (Image: by Dave M. Benett/Getty Pictures for Warner Music Group)
It may be very awkward.
Lots of it comes right down to what your relationship is like together with your fellow actor. I’ve been doing them since my very first job in Skins and so they don’t actually get any simpler! However intimacy coordinators now assist to make you are feeling barely extra comfy.
You type of know what you’re getting your self into once you learn the script.
Your Instagram bio reads ‘Full time Human. Half time Actor. Wannabe System 1 driver’.
I do know it’s a type of issues that will by no means occur – whether or not it’s as a result of I’m over six foot or as a result of I haven’t began from a younger age. However I completely love the strategic component of System One, I really like the standard of engineering, I really like the abilities that the drivers have to have, I really like the tracks, I really like the automobiles. To be a System One driver if I wasn’t an actor can be absolutely the dream.
Maybe a profession in F1 is simply out of attain (Image: Josep LAGO / POOL / AFP)
Medusa Deluxe is launched at the moment in cinemas and completely on MUBI from Aug 4