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THE JACKAL – This is not how it should be. Richard Madden, gingerbread-haired and always smouldering, is sitting in the basement of a working men’s club in south-east London, relishing the fact he has absolutely nothing to do. Not now, at least. Tomorrow, the Glaswegian actor is presenting a BAFTA award with his Rocketman co-stars Taron Egerton and Jamie Bell, but he’s so relaxed about it he doesn’t even know the category yet (Special Visual Effects), or the nominees (it goes to Black Panther). The most pressing thing he needs to do today, ahead of an upcoming trip back to the US, is go to his house and locate his razor.

This is not how it should be. Not for the man who played Robb Stark, Game of Thrones’ tragic demi-protagonist whose death at the Red Wedding in 2013 became the TV event of the decade/century/millennium. Once his father, Ned Stark (Sean Bean), lost his head early on in the show’s run, everyone thought Robb Stark would be the new leading man. Maybe it was his hair, tousled and luscious; maybe it was his princely jawline, or his unwavering moral compass. He looked good riding a horse, was that it? This is what a leading man consists of, everyone said. Then he was murdered.

This is not how it should be. Not for the man who played David Budd, central figure in Jed Mercurio’s Bodyguard, the six-part series that brought the country together in an age where we’ve never had more things to watch on TV. It was the biggest Sunday-night drama since Downton Abbey; when a British tabloid ran a spoiler on the front page, the country was up in arms. The show’s distribution in the US on Netflix boosted its profile even further – and Madden
won a Golden Globe. Someone, somewhere whispered Bond and suddenly everyone frothed at the mouth because, of course! To put it another way, it takes him so long to leave the working men’s club, with the pictures, and the adoration, and the swarm of well-wishing locals, that the Bodyguard star may soon need a bodyguard.

‘I had to learn to get over waiting for it to all go to shit.’

 

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Richard Madden knows this now, though he didn’t in January, when the Scottish actor found himself seated next to Moore at the Golden Globes. Madden had received his first Globe nomination for playing a British politician’s PTSD-stricken protection officer in the hit mini-series “Bodyguard,” and before the names in his category were read, Moore leaned over to strategize.

“She was like, ‘O.K., sweetie, if you win, do you want to come out behind me or do you want to go around the other way?’” Madden recalled. He responded incredulously: Of course he wouldn’t win.

But he did. And as the orchestra began to play, Madden had no idea where to go. With a professional’s ease, Moore stood up, stepped back and coaxed Madden past her to the stage. “And then when I came back to the table after,” he said, “she was like, “I asked you which way you wanted to go!’”

When it comes to navigating his path through Hollywood, the 32-year-old Madden prefers to figure it out on the fly. This week, you can catch him in the musical “Rocketman,” where Madden plays a cunning music manager whose seduction of Elton John extends past the boardroom and into the bedroom. It’s a far cry from Madden’s best-known role as Robb Stark, the virtuous, doomed “Game of Thrones” character who perished during the show’s notorious “Red Wedding” episode.

That series only got bigger and bigger as it went on, but after his third-season exit, Madden was no longer around to partake in the spoils. Still, being killed off early has its benefits: It let Madden gradually age out of callow-prince roles and start playing complicated adult men. His role on “Bodyguard” last fall served as a reintroduction of sorts, a signal to the industry that Madden’s matinee-idol looks had grown gratifyingly flinty. Even his vulnerability now seemed dangerous.

“I’m so used to playing the good guy that bad things happen to,” Madden told me in a Cannes hotel room this month, just days after “Rocketman” premiered at the film festival there. Initially tired from a day of doing press, Madden became warmer and more animated as he spoke, his blue eyes widening often for emphasis. “I was interested in playing a slightly darker character, with different motivations to him.”

His “Rocketman” role, John Reid, lets Madden play the Machiavellian type with a jolt of sexual electricity: When Reid tells the young, untested Elton John, “You’re so humble, it’s embarrassing,” Madden makes his taunt sound like a come-on.
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I’m sorry for the lack of updates. I took a short break from fansites and it ended up being a long hiatus. I’ll be updating the photoshoots tomorrow but here are the events that Richard has been to this year. It’s been a very busy year for him so far!

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 5: The BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Red Carpet

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Fiji Water

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Show

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Press Room

Public Appearances > 2019 >  Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – After Party

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Netflix After Party

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 6: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Moet & Chandon

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 13: The 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 22: National Television Awards 2019 – Red Carpet

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 22: National Television Awards 2019 – Winner’s Room

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 27: 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Red Carpet

Public Appearances > 2019 > Jan 27: 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Show

Public Appearances > 2019 > Feb 10: EE British Academy Film Awards

Public Appearances > 2019 > Feb 13: BOSS Womenswear & Menswear – Backstage – New York Fashion Week

Public Appearances > 2019 > Apr 7: “Bodyguard” Screening & Reception

Public Appearances > 2019 > Apr 23: 2019 Time 100 Gala

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 6: The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 9: Netflix’s “Bodyguard” Screening & Panel

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 16: “Rocketman” Photocall – The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 16: “Rocketman” Red Carpet – The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 16: “Rocketman” Cannes Gala Party – The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 17: “Rocketman” Press Conference – The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 17: Chopard Party – The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 20: “Rocketman” UK Premiere – London

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 20: “Rocketman” Press Conference

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 23: ABC’s “Good Morning America”

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 23: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 29: “Rocketman” New York Premiere

Public Appearances > 2019 > May 29: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Hosts An Official Screening Of “Rocketman”