I see Katie and I go, “wow, she’s humble, she’s professional, and she’s a strong character who stands up for what she sees in her art.”IC: Amazing. If you know too much about them, it’s too much access.GB: Yeah, escapism. The crew and the director captured all these moments where he was improvising about these words.
He’s quite a big casting director in Los Angeles. Didn’t you originally want to be a professional football player?GB: I didn’t have the most traditional route [to] acting. Before becoming an actor, Burnet aspired to become a professional footballer.He still plays football, taking part in a football match on 2 June 2007 at the new Burnet started his career in theatre and making short films. She had fallen down the stairs.She was crying, and I was like, “Don’t worry, don’t worry, it’s going to be all right.” I was then screaming at people, “Get an ambulance!” And the funny thing is, as I’m trying to calm her down, there was a medic that was just standing there, and I got into a fight with him, saying, “What are you standing there for? Eventually, I worked as an apprentice to my mother’s boss who was a playwright. People seem to think [that] to get to a certain place, you need to be this way or that way, But I can promise you that the people I’ve met who are at the top of their game are nice and good people. It was an awesome movie. So I have one question which I’m sure all of our female readers will want to know, as well as some men and some non-binary individuals: are you currently single? A lot of British actors…have [their] schooling system at 18, then go on to drama school for three years and then go into the acting profession. I’m sure you love that question. I grew up playing sports. I think I’ve spent the least amount of time in Los Angeles, even though that’s my base.IC: How do you find Los Angeles compared to London?GB: Initially, I moved from London to New York. [“Ray Donovan”] with Katie Holmes was literally just for that one season. So with regards to 2018, I understand you’re going to be in Amazon’s “Electric Dreams” which is an anthology with Anna Paquin?GB: Yes! Give me a little bit of insight into your role, you play her boyfriend, correct?GB: I come in as a music manager to DJ Khaled. United Agents LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 under number OC377899 If you want to communicate with the guy you don’t have a choice. They didn’t take themselves too seriously, and they communicated to an audience that hadn’t been communicated to before. Half of that language is communicated through social media and half of that language is then communicated by semantics—like, he would say “billi,” or “you’re a billi” meaning a billionaire.IC: I’ve never heard billionaire referred to as “billi.” Should I have known that?IC: He must use a specific Urban Dictionary that we should all be checking out… They should publish that!GB: Yes, there’s the DJ Khaled “Urban Dictionary”.
We talked a little about this previously and you had some funny insight into his social media addiction.GB: From the moment I met him, we got on like a house on fire. Actor Guy Burnet photographed by Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Magazine. I play a diplomat or an ambassador between two worlds. [Firstly,] be a good and nice human being—there’s nothing wrong with that. To offer that, I think you need to have some mystery to who you are.IC: Yeah, totally. I have no interest in that; I don’t want to do that. Burnet co-starred in the musical comedy film Pitch Perfect 3, opposite Anna Kendrick. I like your response to that—I think it’s original, and I think a lot of people will respect that. He received rave reviews for his stage work including his lead role in “Murder in the First” on Broadway. Learn more about our use of cookies: 75. I don’t want you to look at me and go, “that’s Guy Burnet.” I want to go to the cinema and see these actors and just think of their characters. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. London to New York is a very easy transition to make. I had just left school, I think it was on my 19IC: So that was a pretty quick shift from you being 18 or 19 to doing a major TV show.GB: Yeah, its ironic really—I got lucky getting that show but the irony is that once I left, it was another five to six years of being out in the cold and resetting and finding my feet again until I started booking the jobs I wanted to do. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. In terms of where I go home to, the last couple of years [have been] kind of nomadic. That’s my real philosophy: be a nice human being. Unfortunately these days, a lot of things are not based on talent. I didn’t carry on doing [“Ray Donovan”] after that. Then by complete chance, at my first ever audition, I booked a part because I happened to look like the girl who was going to play my sister. He is an actor, known for Ray Donovan (2017), Counterpart (2019) and The Affair (2018). Individually they’re each hysterical in completely different ways. I really believe in [“Counterpart”], and I’m going back to shoot more of it next year in Berlin. You have Hanna May who also had this dry wit. He can next be seen in the independent feature, JACOB’S LADDER, season 2 of COUNTERPART and playing the lead role in THE FEED for Amazon opposite David Thewlis and Michelle Fairley. Guy Burnet.