Hero Fiennes Tiffin for Issue 16

For our cover conversation, Cecilie chats with Hero about his newest project, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and all the things that came from it - reading “the wrong fucking book”, looking just like his grandad, feeling like “the skinny white guy” next to Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson, and being told by Guy Ritchie to ‘Just be cool’. We also, of course, talk a little bit about After because how could we not?

"You get better as you go along because for the first After movie - for lack of a better phrase - well there’s not a better phrase, I was shitting myself! But every time I start to prepare for a role, I always have the thought of like, How the fuck do I act? It’s such an immeasurable thing."

To feel like you're sitting across from Hero at a restaurant table, chatting about life and all of its joy, pain, and fear, buy Issue 16. He also casually dropped quite a few life lessons over eggs on bread. Don't ask him who said the quotes though, he won't know. "Balance" is a keyword in our conversation, with Hero also telling us how he achieves it whether it be on the football pitch, at a sauna, or at work. But mostly the football pitch - this is us formally asking someone to put him in a football film. Harris Dickinson, stay away! (You won't understand that without reading the issue, so buy now!)

Take in the full 22-page story beyond this teaser. Our brand new Spring Summer 2024 issue Breaking Waves is available to buy online and in select stores worldwide.