Jack Lowden

Jack Lowden used to think that actors who stayed in accent in between takes were “arseholes”. Then he realised it can be useful. When the Scottish actor had to ...

His production company, Arcade Pictures, set up with producer Dominic Norris and Lowden’s girlfriend, Saoirse Ronan, is currently in the edit of an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir The Outrun, in which Ronan stars as a recovering alcoholic returning to the Orkney Islands. After being rejected from “drama school after drama school after drama school”, Lowden was eventually accepted by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. When Lowden transitioned to screen, it was a shock: “I was like ‘What? “[They are] wildly, wildly different but what they have in common is that they all know exactly what they want,” he says. Spoofing High School Musical, the clip survives on YouTube and there is a point on every set where Lowden finds a group of crew, shoulders bobbing, and realises “Yeh, they’ve found my beginnings”. But sometimes I think that you can also see that as a guise, a sort of excuse for committing crime.” “There’s a lot of people that were affected by this that are still around,” he explains. And I got big as well – I put on a lot of beef. “It was the biggest robbery in world history up until that point, and there were a lot of people out of their depths. He sees it as “a strong reflection of what we make on these islands. I would recommend it to everyone”) as MI5 misfit River Cartwright in [Apple TV+’s understated thriller Slow Horses,](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/slow-horses-series-2-apple-tv-review-grimy-and-downbeat-not-your-average-espionage-thriller-1994712?ico=in-line_link) Lowden is generally found vocally prowling the South East of England. Jack Lowden used to think that actors who stayed in accent in between takes were “arseholes”.