It’s been just over a year since Jake Dunn first turned heads with his devastating, deeply constructed turn as Liam in Paris Lees’ What It Feels Like for a Girl. In the year since, the acclaimed BBC Three series has continued to build the kind of dedicated, deeply invested audience that few shows of its size manage to earn, one that has now taken it all the way to five nominations at this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, including a much-deserved Best Actor nod for lead Ellis Howard.
“I’m not the wag-of-my-tail type. I’m the person that can run in and be like, ‘Look, I’m in love with you, I should just come clean.”