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Aidan photographed for the British magazine Man About Town, Issue of today May 19th, 2026.
Photographer : James Anastasi.
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Aidan photographed for the British magazine Man About Town, Issue of today May 19th, 2026.
Photographer : James Anastasi
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Interview by Ben Tibbits
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“It’s About Keeping Myself On My Toes”: Aidan Turner On Challenging Himself And Stealing Scenes In Rivals.
By Ben Tibbits - May 19th, 2026
FROM EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE TO HEROIC HOBBIT AND HISTORICAL HEARTTHROB, THE IRISH ACTOR HAS STOLEN HEARTS AND SWEPT ACCOLADES FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES. HE’S SPENDING 2026 IN SOME OF TV AND THEATRE’S MOST DEBAUCHED FICTIONAL DOMAINS: FROM THE RAUNCHY ’80S-SET DISNEY+ DRAMA TO A STINT AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE AS THE ANTI-HERO OF LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. ESSENTIALLY, THE 42-YEAR-OLD IS BACK AT HIS OLD TRICKS – PLAYING COMPLEX CHARACTERS AND BEING DEVASTATINGLY DASHING DOING SO.
You probably know someone who really loves Aidan Turner. A somewhat old-school heartthrob, he predates today’s rotation of internet boyfriends. Such obsessions might stretch back to 2009, when the now-42-year-old Dublin-born, London-based actor announced himself as morally complex vampiric lothario John Mitchell in cult favourite supernatural drama Being Human. Or it might have materialised at his silver screen breakthrough, as heroic Hobbit Kili in Peter Jackson’s prequel trilogy of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth classic.
Most likely, however, their love fully hit its stride when he met audiences as the titular character in BBC’s Poldark. Running for five seasons from 2015-2019, the period-piece romantic drama was one of Britain’s biggest shows in the back half of the decade, and saw Turner, as the broodily charismatic landowner, metamorphose into the apple of every mum’s eye in households across Britain and Ireland. And for anyone not already under his thrall, in 2026, he’s back at TV’s apex as the thick-moustached Declan O’Hara in steamy Dame Jilly Cooper adaptation, Rivals. Thanks to his portrayal of the prime time TV host, complete with a straight-edged earnestness and vamped-up sex appeal, he’s back once again in the arms of screen mania.
With chisel and charm, Turner has spent nearly two decades positioned as one of British and Irish TV and cinema’s premium eye-candies. But he’s more than a sweet touch. Each of his roles has shown a different string to his bow; an ability to mould himself into whatever comes his way. “It’s about keeping myself on my toes,” he grins, boyish yet concise. “Trying to mix it up, change, be different. Keep challenging myself with different genres and different characters, as much as an audience will accept me for it.”
It’s early April, one of the first truly sunny days of the year, as Turner logs onto our call with a spring in his step and warmth in his manner. The thick upper-lipped facial piece that he’d recently grown and groomed for the filming of the second season of Rivals has been shaved to obscurity, replaced by smart stubble and a youthful grace. There’s something grounded and trustworthy about Turner; an everyday bloke, no pretension or arrogance. One purely focused on his livelihood and his family, which right now, is a finely-struck equilibrium.
“Balancing family life with theatre life is always a challenge,” he shrugs. But there’s a sense that this is a particularly hectic and stressful time for Turner. Within days of wrapping the Rivals shoot, he was in rehearsals for his latest stint on the stage for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The Marianne Elliott-directed (Angels in America, War Horse) production opened in April and is playing until 6th June, with a show a day, except on Sundays, and two on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Adding in the fact that his wife, fellow actor Caitlin FitzGerald (Masters of Sex, Sweetbitter), is away for work, and his four-year-old son is off school for Easter break, it’s a wonder he found an hour in his schedule for his Man About Town interview.
“It’s nice to be busy,” he says assuringly, shaking off any sign of schedule deluge. “I don’t want to make it sound like it’s too overwhelming. I mean, it’s a busy time, but there will be times when it’s not so busy. I know I’ll have the summer off; after the play finishes, I’ll have a couple of months to hang and chill and do family stuff. It’s swings and roundabouts.”
For now, focus is very much on the play – a return to his theatrical roots, having begun his career in front of live audiences following graduation from Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting in 2004. It’s been about three years since Turner was last on stage, but it is a practice that he will always come back to – a paramount method of testing his nuance and mettle alike. “Every few years I like to get back on stage if I can,” he says. “I’ve done a lot of TV projects for the last while, and they’re a different beast. They’re demanding in different ways. I think if I let [not being on stage] go on too long, maybe five, six, eight years, I don’t know whether I could go back to it. I think it might become too scary. It’s exciting and terrifying in equal measures, I suppose. So I just thought now was time to get back on stage again, and this was the perfect opportunity.”
Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an apt project for Turner to throw himself back into theatre. Widely known as quintessential classic French literature, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel is a tantalising tale of sex, social class and power. It has been adapted countless times for the screen and stage – not least as Dangerous Liaisons, the triple Oscar-winning 1988 Hollywood caper starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. Christopher Hampton, who wrote the screenplay, is heavily involved in this retelling at the National Theatre, which sees Turner appearing as the debonair but darkly motivated Vicomte de Valmont opposite Oscar-nominee Lesley Manville’s dominant and cunning Marquise de Merteuil, as the pair rise the ranks of the bourgeoisie through backstabbing and seduction.
For Turner, it’s a story he’s been familiar with since drama school, and a character in de Valmont whom he’s long been drawn towards. “I just thought he was a really interesting character,” he says. “I couldn’t quite work out what his motives were. Is he a good guy? Morally, where does he sit? He’s coerced into playing these games with Madame de Merteuil that are sick and manipulative. They’re basically two wealthy aristocrats who weaponise sex to get what they want. But he’s not exactly a psychopath, he does feel empathy and actually manages to fall in love with somebody who he doesn’t realise he is in love with.”
Turner impresses. Not only in the humanity and moral intricacy that he brings to a character who has so often been played as the villain, but also in managing the sheer length and stamina required for the show. It’s a marathon job, but Turner is an adept runner. “It can be difficult,” he admits on maintaining consistency across such a prolonged period. “We’ve only done about a dozen shows so far, and we have about 100 to do. I barely leave the stage during the runtime, but that’s easier in some ways. I’ve done plays in the past where you have a couple of key scenes, and that’s it. That’s harder because it’s difficult not to go into Groundhog Day after 20 performances. It begins to feel the same, and I don’t know how to listen anymore. But when you’re as busy as I am in this play, it’s easier to stay engaged, because you really have to be on the whole time. You feel a little bit like an athlete.“
Though he returns now in fighting shape to theatre, TV is where Turner decisively made his name, and continues to augment it. Being Human, which co-starred Russell Tovey and Antonia Thomas, ran for three seasons on BBC Three from 2009-11, and was a launchpad moment for its trio of leads. Turner’s vampire stood out sharpest, though; angsty yet playful, there was a Byronic complexity to Mitchell that was refreshingly anti-archetypal. Off the back of Being Human, Turner’s career took a Brobdingnagian leap into one of the decade’s biggest cinematic franchises – The Hobbit Trilogy. What could have prompted a major Hollywood career became more of a sliding doors moment; the lukewarm reception of the films made it tricky for its talented cast, which also boasted UK TV regulars Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage, to show themselves capable of the step up.
His following project, though, evinced his star quality in all its power. “I knew on the Monday when the ratings came out that I was going to be doing it for five years,” Turner quips, reminiscing on the immediate impact of Poldark. It was a colossal success, the kind that doesn’t seem possible anymore for a terrestrial TV show, the equivalent of Netflix’s crazes like You or Bridgerton, picking up BAFTAs and sowing Turner into the fabric of British TV. “I just knew we had an audience who were really loyal,” he says. “It wasn’t like if we have a bad second series, everyone’s going to fuck off. It’s just that type of show.”
By the end of his fifth season as Poldark – with a handful of smaller film projects like 2016’s The Secret Scripture and 2018’s The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot sandwiched in between – Turner desired something new, a revitalisation, fatigued by such a lengthy and taxing term in the same role. “I really enjoyed doing the show, and I’m very proud of it, but yeah, when I finished the show, I was determined to play against what Poldark was and go in a different direction. It’s hard to do this job if you don’t feel challenged and excited to get up every morning to go and do it.”
Those post-Poldark ventures have seen him depict everything from world-famous artist da Vinci in Leonardo to a tennis coach in Fifteen-Love, to a seedy shrink in The Suspect and a mysterious operative in The Diplomat. But it’s perhaps his latest role in Rivals, the gloriously entertaining adaptation of Cooper’s novel of the same name, that has proved the most substantial hit since.
Rivals, a show based on the feud between two British plutocrats and how the unravelling relationship seeps into a fictional town’s television station, is rich, gratifying TV. It’s sexy, intelligent, funny and shocking, with dazzling 1980s decoration, and a pantheon of beloved thespians all clearly having the time of their lives playing slimy, unpredictable characters. “There’s a tone that we managed to hit,” Turner acknowledges. “I don’t know how we did it; it was never necessarily discussed. But we all just got it from day one, we just knew what it was. Which doesn’t always happen; it can take a while. I think it’s just a credit to our producers and our writers, and Jilly as well. We all just understood what we were doing and how we were going about doing it.”
The shoot for the second season was 10 months long, but rather than it feeling like a gruelling endeavour by the time it wrapped, “I swear I’ve never felt this way, but I almost didn’t want it to end,” Turner enthuses. Such was the joy of working with the star-studded ensemble that boasts the likes of Doctor Who and Broadchurch royalty David Tennant, comedic heavyweight Katherine Parkinson, chameleon Rupert Everett, and ubiquitous geezer Danny Dyer.
The chemistry on-screen between the array of top-tier talents is palpable, with the work-life balance also lighter for Turner and his co-stars. “All the actors are brilliant and wonderfully gifted. And also, there’s no out-and-out lead. It feels like there are a dozen of us who are all sharing the narrative, which is great. It just makes it more fun, and also, the demand isn’t so high for every single actor. You’re not in every single scene. So you have time to prepare for the work, which is something that doesn’t always happen when you’re leading a show. With Rivals, it’s a little looser where we can all take a breath sometimes. You might have a few weeks that are intense, but then you might have a few weeks that aren’t so much. You get time to be social and just to be in person, really, outside of work and in work as well. It is a little more civil – a bit more grown-up.”
Turner’s newsman Declan O’Hara, whom he had a “wealth of resource material” to pick from, including his own dad and secondary school teachers, is the audience surrogate. He offers a sense of normality among the infidelity, scandals and backstabbing that the majority of the cohort entertain themselves with. “He is the outsider. He’s allowing us into this world and holding up a mirror, like – ‘Look at how fucking crazy all these people are’. He doesn’t really want to move there; he’s doing it for a job. So he’s on the periphery, on the outside. There was something about that that felt quite comforting. I didn’t need to be in this fickle world of everyone just shagging each other. He takes himself and his work quite seriously. I just thought it’d be fun to play a character like that.”
Turner’s two current roles in Rivals and Les Liaisons Dangereuses reflect his ambition to continuously bolster his arsenal. An absorbing leading presence, a knee-weakening sex symbol and a layered character actor, he may be, but he’s far from finished. Top of his list next is a side-step into something a little more suitable for his number one fan. “I like the idea, because I’ve never done it before, of doing something my son could watch, who is only four,” he smiles before he straps back into his feverish schedule. “He’s too young to watch anything I’ve ever done, so in the next couple of years, it might be fun to do a family show like that, or an animation or something.” Watch out, CBeebies – Aidan Turner is coming for the crown.
Rivals Season 2 is available to watch now on Disney+ (UK) and Hulu (US) "
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Aidan on the cover magazine of the Irish Times magazine, Issue of tomorrow on May 9th.
Photographer : Nicola Tree
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ARTICLE OF THE BRITISH AIRWAYS HIGH LIFE
1️⃣ How do you beat jet lag?
"I don't fight it, I embrace it. If I wake up at 3am, I'll have a cup of tea, do some work, read or watch a movie. Then I'll take a nap when I'm tired. I prefer my body to readjust naturally. I enjoy being awake when everyone else is asleep and it's quiet. Maybe it's the vampire in me. I quite enjoy jet lag."
2️⃣ What's one item you never travel without?
"Mitchum deodorant. None of your natural, citrus stuff.
I need all the aluminium and chemicals. It's got to be hardcore. I need this stuff to not wash off my body for 48 hours!"
3️⃣ What makes the best holiday souvenir?
"Fridge magnets and photographs. It's lovely when a photo flashes up on your phone, saying, 'This was a year ago', and it's just us on a beach somewhere. It really warms me."
4️⃣ What would you most like to ask a pilot?
"Where does the plane's toilet waste go? And what's the shortest runway you've ever had to take off or land on?"
5️⃣ What's your favourite way to immerse yourself in a new culture?
"Wandering around and getting lost. I'm directionally challenged but I enjoy being terrible at finding my way around. I'll walk around a new city like Hansel and Gretel, leaving breadcrumbs so that I can find my way back to the hotel."
6️⃣ What's been your best travel experience with work?
"I met my wife when we shot a movie in Massachusetts. It was this stunning village called
Turners Falls, which was apt. That was a very specia experience to me."
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The watercooler show of the season is back!
Rivals, with Jilly Cooper’s trademark sex and scheming at its heart, launched in late 2024 to critical and commercial acclaim. So with season two on the horizon, we organised an early-morning shoot with its smouldering star Aidan Turner - AKA moustachioed loose cannon TV host Declan O’Hara - as well as an exclusive cover story for the May/June issue of British Airways High Life.
Turner is also currently starring as unprincipled playboy Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The National Theatre, so the shoot took place at the crack of dawn on London’s Southbank, before he started rehearsals for the day.
Of Rivals’ camp melodrama and ‘90s excess, Turner said, ‘It’s pre-packaged fun. The first time I read the script, I was like, « Oh my god, I’ve got to be in this! » We all sat down on the first day, looked at each other and started laughing as if to say,
« Can you believe we’re doing this? » We recognised how lucky we were and all got on immediately!
The first half of the new season of the Rutshire romp is returning to Disney+ on 15 May. Look out for British Airways’ starring role in the show when part two drops later this year.
The May/June issue of High Life is being mailed out to Gold Members of The BA Club and available in BA lounges now.
Go to bahighlife.com to access the full interview and shoot.
Aidan Turner via Public Eye Communications:
@publiceyecomms
Creative direction: Jamie McPherson @jmecreates
Production: Matt Richardson-Wood @richardsonnmatt
Editor: Helen Whitaker @itshelenwhitaker
Journalist: Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100
Grooming: Bryony Blake @bryony_blake
Photography team: Max Lancaster @maxrapheal, Andrew Edwards @amexxv, Mia Cinamon @miacinamon
With thanks to the National Theatre, London @nationaltheatre
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Aidan for The British Airways High Life magazine,
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Aidan for The British Airways High Life magazine today 01/05/2026
Words: Michael Hogan
Photography: Matt Holyoak
Styling: Kenny Ho
My close up of our handsome Aidan sharper
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Aidan for The British Airways High Life magazine today 01/05/2026
Words: Michael Hogan
Photography: Matt Holyoak
Styling: Kenny Ho
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Aidan for The British Airways High Life magazine today 01/05/2026
Words: Michael Hogan
Photography: Matt Holyoak
Styling: Kenny Ho
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The first thing you notice about Aidan Turner is something that isn’t there. A certain fuzzy growth on his upper lip. Thanks to his role in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, the Irish actor has spent the past six months sporting a statement moustache. But when he arrives for his High Life close-up, the luxuriant soup-strainer is nowhere to be seen.
“I had to clear it with everybody in case there were any reshoots,” he grins. “I made several calls and sent several emails before I could shave it off. It’s fine when I’m playing Declan in Rivals. It suits the character and I enjoy rocking it. But as soon as I started rehearsing this play, it didn’t feel right. I was glad to see the back of it.”
What did his wife, American actress Caitlin FitzGerald, make of the facial fuzz? “She’s not the biggest fan,” he says. “I might be wearing an open shirt, trackie bottoms and boots. With the moustache, it somehow sends a very different message. She’d just burst out laughing and say, ‘Do you know how ridiculous you look right now?’”
The play he’s referring to is the National Theatre’s major new adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Written by Christopher Hampton and based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, it’s a corset-popping period romcom about scheming, seduction and revenge among 18th-century French aristocrats. Turner plays the unprincipled playboy Vicomte de Valmont opposite Lesley Manville as his ex-lover and co-conspirator Marquise de Merteuil.
“It’s my debut at the National, so that’s ticked off the bucket list,” says the Dublin-born, East London-based 42-year-old. “It’s such a brilliant institution. Everyone’s at the top of their game here.” He’s a fan of the iconic building’s Brutalist architecture, where High Life’s cover story was shot one early February morning. “I love it,” he adds. “All that concrete. All those clean lines.” Turner had wanted to star in Les Liaisons Dangereuses since drama school: “I was always fascinated by Valmont and deeply curious about what made him tick. It’s very funny, with deeply twisted characters.”
He’s relishing the chance to work with Oscar-nominated Manville. “Lesley’s phenomenal. She was born to play this role. Working with someone like her raises the bar,” he says. “Despite their 27-year age gap, they have seriously spicy chemistry. “Our characters have a very strange, codependent relationship,” explains Turner. “They need each other to play these revenge games. They want to publicly ruin reputations. That’s how they get their kicks. Cancel them, if you like. That’s what tickles them.”
The novel might have been written in 1782 but it remains timely. “Lesley actually played the younger role of Cécile in the National’s first production, back in 1985, with Alan Rickman as Valmont, so she’s gone full circle,” says Turner. “I don’t need to tell you how much culturally things have shifted since then. It’s a story about wealthy aristocrats who weaponise sex to get what they want. I think that landed very differently in 1983, compared to how it lands in today’s world.
Turner was an accomplished ballroom dancer during his teens, finishing third in the Irish National Championships. He’s dusted off his twinkle toes for the play. “There is some choreography,” he admits shyly. “Full transparency, there’s a lot more dancing in it than I thought! I let slip to Marianne [Elliott, the play’s award-winning director] that I could dance a little bit and her eyes lit up. I’d opened up some kind of Pandora’s box that I didn’t have the power to ever close again.” What sort of moves can audiences expect? “It’s classical but very sexy and grounded. A mix of set moves and pointed ballet toes with some really guttural, lusty dancing and elements of ballroom.”
Has Strictly ever been in touch? “No, and I don’t want them to either! I’ve left all that behind,” he says. “Although clearly I haven’t completely hung up my dancing shoes. In the play, I literally wear the same brand that I used to wear. But competitive dancing was so crazy for so many years, it makes me kind of anxious. If I smell Elnett hairspray, I have a panic attack. It genuinely makes my heart beat faster.”
Turner was juggling his time between play rehearsals and shooting the hit TV adaptation of beloved bonkbuster Rivals, which is about to return for a second series. Dame Jilly Cooper died last autumn and he attended her star-studded memorial service at Southwark Cathedral in January. “Her send-off was one of the most incredible occasions of my life,” he says. “It embodied everything that Jilly was about. She’d have been so tickled. Out of nowhere, 127 magnums of Moët came out! I must have had ten glasses! It didn’t stop for two hours.”
He will miss the late author’s visits to the set of Rivals. “I adored it when Jilly came down,” he adds. “She would tell all the men how handsome they were, say something sincere about your performance, then if you got in close enough, whisper something really filthy and funny. Then you’d turn around and she’d have disappeared, like she was never there. She had a magical energy. What a wonderful woman.”
With its camp melodrama and 80s excess, Rivals looks a total riot to make. “It really is,” he confirms. “It’s pre-packaged fun. The first time I read the script, I knew I had to be in it. We all sat down on the first day, looked at each other and started laughing as if to say, ‘Can you believe we’re doing this?’ We recognised how lucky we were and all got on immediately. We shoot in Bristol and hang out whenever we can.” There are reportedly plenty of cocktails after the cameras stop rolling. What’s his tipple of choice? “I keep it simple with a good, cold, dirty vodka martini. Or a well-made piña colada. I also enjoy a White Russian. One of my favourite films is The Big Lebowski. Everyone started drinking those when the movie came out.”
As the Rutshire romp returns, where do we find his moustachioed character, TV journalist Declan O’Hara? “It’s an eventful time for Declan,” he says. “His marriage is in tatters but his career’s going well. There’s a constant dichotomy between family and work.” There’s a glimpse of a steamy shower scene for Turner in the trailer. “It’s a show that keeps the intimacy coordinators busy! I’ve always found them really useful. I don’t want to say too much about my personal life, but you sort of run out of ideas after a while,” he laughs. “You’re like, ‘I don’t know what else to do!’ And they’re like, ‘I’ve got your back, man, try this.’ They find a way of telling the story through sex. It takes the awkwardness away and makes everyone more comfortable.”
As well as an appearance from – yes – British Airways, the new series takes viewers into the glamorous world of polo. Does Turner get to ride a horse? “I’m probably not allowed to say but yes! I wasn’t supposed to but I became very bold and just jumped on one. I already knew Mark Atkinson, the horse trainer. He trained me for Poldark, so I persuaded him to introduce me to this big beast of an Irish stallion and started riding him around. I wouldn’t take no for an answer. I galloped up to the producers, who were like, ‘This guy really wants to ride a horse.’ So maybe we made it happen. Wait and see!”
Turner had grown endearingly close to Seamus, his trusty steed in Poldark. “Poor Seamus died,” he reveals, genuinely moved. “It broke my heart. We’d spend entire days together on location, with everyone laughing because they could hear down the mic as I chatted to him. But he was an old boy. Mark couldn’t bring himself to tell me he died because he knew I’d be upset. When he finally did, I was devastated.”
Turner’s role as dashing hero Ross Poldark in the BBC phenomenon catapulted him to mainstream fame a decade ago. Shirtless scything scenes went viral. He was voted Sexiest Man Alive. His hair even had its own Twitter account. How did he keep his feet on the ground at the height of Poldark mania? “I’ve never been on social media, which helped,” he says. “The show’s success genuinely surprised me. I loved making it but was shocked by the huge ratings. I remember thinking: ‘Oh wow, this is a thing! That’s the next five years of my life carved out.’ I have fond memories and am very proud of Poldark, but it definitely changed things. There’s a pre-Poldark actor and a post-Poldark one. They’re two quite different people.”
When he’s not working, Turner can often be found watching snooker. “I’m obsessed,” he admits. “A complete nerd. My YouTube account is just pool and snooker. My favourite player is Ronnie O’Sullivan but I’ve got a soft spot for Ken Doherty. He won the World Championship in 1997, when I was really getting into the sport. I have a pool table in Dublin and on my 30th birthday, Ken came over to play. He spent the whole night telling me and my pals stories, while kicking our butts at the pool table – and then gave me a replica of his cue. It was a really special night. I play nine-ball pool as often as I can. We put the Lycra gloves on, fix our carbon fibre cues together and take it really seriously.”
His other passion is painting: “I do quite large, abstract paintings,” he says. “I work on the principle that bigger is better. Bedazzle them with the size of the canvas, not the actual artistic talent. I’ve been dabbling for 12 years now and really enjoy it.”
Next on Turner’s career wish list is a family-friendly film. “My four-year-old dressed up as Dracula for Halloween and I said, ‘You know Daddy played a vampire once?’ I showed him a clip of Being Human and think I may have traumatised him for life. I quickly turned it off about 30 seconds in, before his mum saw. So it might be nice to do something family-oriented that he can watch soon, because he won’t see everything else for a very long time.”
Les Liaisons Dangereuses is at the National Theatre until 6 June. Rivals returns to Disney+ on 15 May
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Aidan for The Sunday Times Magazine, Supplement of the Year, to be released in newsstands next Sunday May 3rd.
Photographer : Robert Wilson.
Thanks to Isademrio for her close up
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Aidan for The Sunday Times Magazine, Supplement of the Year, to be released in newsstands next Sunday May 3rd.
Photographer : Robert Wilson.
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Aidan attending the Soho Summit 2026 at the Soho Farmhouse near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds-UK, on April 23rd morning.
You can see Dermot O'Leary and his wife Dee Koppang O'Leary, Emily Atack, Felicity Blunt and Bella Maclean.
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My new edits of our Aidan
Les Liaisons Dangereuses repeats
I love him in black so I changed his white tee shirt for a black tee shirt and changed the background of 2 pictures
I truly admire him greatly; he can embody any character, he can express so many different feelings—he’s a great actor.
Here, a pose full of gentleness, melancholy, and sensuality.