CALLUM TURNER IS ON TARGET
Before Callum Turner embraced acting, he wanted to be a footballer. In a sense, he still does. On screen, the 33-year-old British actor’s team spirit, humble charisma and physicality have proved vital assets, as they surely will again in two major incoming projects.
Turner will soon be seen slicing through the water in The Boys in the Boat, George Clooney’s Depression-era film about a university rowing crew. Shortly after, he’ll be found joining forces with exec producer Steven Spielberg for Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air, the high-flying sibling show to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
He certainly put in the training to get here. Raised on a Chelsea council estate by his mum, a nightclub promoter, Turner has steadily amassed a body of work that showcases his sporting attributes and eye for director-driven material. After time spent modelling, he banked TV kudos in shows such as Glue. He was a likeable presence as director John Boorman’s alter ego in Hope and Glory follow-up Queen & Country, then a charismatic but cornered punk band frontman in Jeremy Saulnier’s blistering Green Room.
From here, he held his own as the cocky but unlikeable Anatole Kuragin amid a starry cast in TV’s War & Peace. Other period gigs have included Emma., where he played the caddish Frank Churchill, drawn to the role by director Autumn de Wilde’s fresh viewp
