![]() ![]() He’s wearing Comme des Garçons sneakers, a green military jacket and a hip Japanese T-shirt that his dad bought him (“I have a very cool dad”), together with his grandad’s signet ring and his nan’s chain. No one in his family or circle has ever done anything remotely like acting, he says. ![]() ‘My parents were like: Are you sure you want to go that hard for your audition?’: Anson Boon wears painted pastel jumper and trousers, both by. “Like, I get to do these cool things and go to photoshoots and fly to LA and stuff like that and that’s when I’m Hannah… Then I go back home to Peterborough and I’m back with my mates that I’ve been to school with and they’re all builders and plumbers and stuff and I love it.” “I feel a bit like Hannah Montana sometimes,” he says, a reference to the Disney Channel sitcom in which Miley Cyrus played an ordinary school girl with a popstar alter ego. The kind of boy my mum would love, all “Yes mate!” and “I love my pubs!” and “I’m moving up in the world” (in reference to the fact that his tea comes in an actual pot). And yet, how to put this? He’s so nice! So un-punkishly pleased to be here. It’s the sort of role that will define how he’s seen for years to come: menacing, volatile, a little dangerous. The 22-year-old actor can soon be seen playing the punk icon Johnny Rotten in Pistol, Danny Boyle’s new six-part Sex Pistols biopic on Disney+. ![]() S omething is clearly wrong, I realise, as Anson Boon sips peppermint tea in a plant-filled café in east London, relishing one of the last moments of calm before his career blows up. ![]()
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