Thomas Brodie-Sangster: "This is what I look like"

The 2003 film Love Actually, known to us as Actually .

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Love” is a Christmas must-do for many people.

From the dance of predominantly British acting stars conducted by Richard Curtis, the audience may have had a different impression on each viewer: Hugh Grant, for example, as the clumsy prime minister, whose office leaves an amazing amount of time for private affairs, Emma Thompson as a wife humiliated on Christmas Eve, Colin Firth as Portuguese wheel-breaking romantic.

And oh, Heike Makatsch is also playing along.

And Mr Bean.

And of course this little boy.

Jorg Thomann

Editor in the “Life” section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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Everyone remembers the little boy.

His big eyes and the seriousness with which this Sam tells his stepfather (Liam Neeson) about his incredible love for the exchange student Joanna from America;

of the eagerness with which he practices playing the drums in order to be able to be close to his beloved on stage at the Christmas concert.

Less people are likely to know the name of the actor who lent his face to Sam.

The man's name is Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and yes, of course he's a man today, 19 years later.

A veteran actor and a thriving actor, he plays the band's no less iconic creator and manager, Malcolm McLaren, in a new series about the iconic punk band Sex Pistols ('Pistol' is directed by Danny Boyle).

Reason for a video call with Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Gone are the fake McLaren curls, little Sam from Actually .

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Love”, on the other hand, can still be seen in Brodie-Sangster's 32-year-old face.

Mister Brodie-Sangster, how does it feel to be on set with so many young people?

The Sex Pistols performers are all in their twenties.

It was pretty strange for me since

was always the boy.

When I found out that Louis Partridge, who plays Sid Vicious

, wasn't even born when I started acting, it was an odd realization.

It's nice to see so much young British talent awakening.

Playing Malcolm McLaren must have been a great pleasure.

He's basically the villain of the story, but at the same time so charming and eccentric that it's hard to be angry with him.

I didn't want him to come across as too much of a villain.

He sure is a controlling guy, a mastermind.

Except perhaps for John Lydon.

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as "Johnny Rotten" the band's lead singer.

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he's the only one in this group of guys who has a plan in mind.

And everything that gets in the way of that vision is swept aside.

That gave him a bit of a cutthroat reputation.

But I think that's rooted in an artistic attitude, not malice.

McLaren is not a bad individual.

Whoever met him thought he was great, hilarious, he made everyone laugh - but at the end of the night he hands you the bill and you're like, bastard.

Do you regret not living through the Pistols era for yourself, or is that okay?

Some fell by the wayside in the 1970s.