It’s late into the evening when finally finds time to talk to . The British star is shooting , a new Netflix series from mastermind . Partridge explains that he is playing a young Edward Guinness, effortlessly transitioning into a spot-on Dublin accent as he speaks: “It’s a posh, Dublin, RP in 1869, so he talked like that.
It’s not like the Dublin that you hear today, which is more like [boxer] Conor McGregor.” As you read on, you’ll see the young actor has a knack for impressions. His acting chops are landing him bigger and bigger roles.
Partridge’s big break came with Netflix’s mystery movie , starring opposite Millie Bobby Brown as her love interest. At just 21, he’s now worked with the likes of Danny Boyle, Paul King, and is set to star in Noah Baumbach’s untitled Jay Kelly film alongside , Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern and Adam Sandler next year. (Oh — and he is the boyfriend of American .
) He can also now add to his impressive resumé. At the center of the Mexican’s Apple TV+ miniseries is , playing acclaimed documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft. She shares a directionless son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) with her wealthy husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), but their lives are turned upside down when a book named is mailed to Catherine and — to her horror — divulges she had, over 20 years prior, an affair with a young 19-year-old, Jonathan Brigstocke (Partridge).
For the first six episodes, the infidelity is recounted through the eyes of Jonathan’s mother.
