Jack O’Connell's star is on the ascendant. Spotted by Shane Meadows at 14 and Angelina Jolie’s protégé by 23, the lad from Derby, now 25, is set to hit the big time this summer when he appears in Tulip Fever alongside Cara Delevingne and HHhH with Rosamund Pike.
In an exclusive video for the Evening Standard Magazine, whose cover he graces this week, O’Connell is tested on his knowledge of Cockney rhyming slang.
He breezes through his early answers to ‘Dog and Bone’ to ‘China Plate’, grinning as he teases “I thought you were gonna test me!”.
The star then comes unstuck on ‘Brown Bread’, wrongly guessing ‘head’ instead of ‘dead’.
The mischievous-looking actor offers to reel off some of his home town’s own slang, explaining the Anglo-Saxon origins of ‘Ey up mi duck’.
Watch the video above to see how he fares.
With thanks to Selfridges, Very, Yamaha Music London, Wild at Heart, Whole Foods Market. Video shot by Leo Williams.
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