I knew Sally had hit on something truthful. "These men are constantly flirting with each other, all over each other physically. "This world is also the most homoerotic world," Floyd says. They felt violated."īut what he learned from this experience chimed exactly with El Hosaini's script in ways he couldn't have conceived. 'What the fuck?!' They turned it off and didn't watch it again. When a male character began playfully rubbing another's nipples, "the whole room went schizo," he says. "The only way to do it was to go 'method' on it," he says, remembering one afternoon near Ramadan, sitting in an illegally occupied Dalston council flat watching the cartoon Family Guy.
Taking the director's cue for authenticity, Floyd spent six months palling around with gang members. Still, his own fame now feels like a given. "I'm losing roles to ridiculous names," Floyd says. agent, and pivoted him into contention for parts later snagged by Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Jake Gyllenhaal. It also won him the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 2012 British Independent Film Awards, landed him a U.S. As that movie featured a star-making turn from Daniel Day-Lewis, Floyd's staggering portrayal was easily one of the highlights of the performances from young actors at Sundance last year. Devil contains echoes of My Beautiful Laundrette, the 1985 masterwork centering around a British-Asian subculture. At the heart of the film is Rashid's relationship with his younger brother, Mo, whom he tries to steer away from the seductive gangland rites of passage. He plays the son of hard-working Egyptian immigrants, a lost soul embroiled in the fractious estate violence of East London, dealing drugs while exploring his sexuality.
It'd actually be quite impressive to fuck them up."Īs Devil's lead character, Rashid, Floyd does anything but. You could see the film on the page-the voices were there. "Every actor says this, so you're just going to have to trust that I'm being honest," he prefaces, sitting in a cafe located among a parade of decrepit shops under a housing project around the corner from his London flat. James Floyd first read the screenplay for My Brother the Devil in the summer of 2010. Photography by Samuel Bradley Styling by Kyran Low
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