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I met him the other night at the ENB Xmas party, he's adoreable!
Observer interview.
Douglas Booth: Lines of beauty
You could spend a lifetime gazing at pictures of Douglas Booth, so the Observer fashion team cast him as Dorian Gray, the man who sold his soul to remain gorgeous. Is this 19-year-old actor the most beautiful boy in the world?
Douglas Booth as Dorian Gray: formal blazer, £119.99, and trousers, £59.99, both Zara (zara.com). Evening shirt, £99, Thomas Pink (thomaspink.com). Feather cape, £12, Peacocks (peacocks.co.uk). Interchangeable cufflinks, £255, Lanvin (matchesfashion.com). Photograph: Jason Hetherington for the Observer
You're disgustingly good looking," I say. I can't help it. It's been on the tip of my tongue, like a complimentary ulcer, ever since I sat down opposite Douglas Booth, here, on a sofa, at a London hotel of his choice. He looks like naive art. He looks like an Elizabeth Peyton painting. I've actually interrupted him. He was in the middle of telling me about his worst nightmare – being leched at in a nightclub. "But you're ridiculously handsome. Look at you," I screech. Somebody looks up from their tea. Booth, to his credit, grimaces. Even with his mouth twisted, though, he looks beautiful. I grind my teeth to stop more praise falling out.
Booth is 19 years old. He first entered our consciousness playing Boy George in the TV drama Worried About the Boy. His eyebrows were shaved off for ease of make-up application but, despite the two looking nothing alike he filled the role, at 17 playing George through his heroin 20s. George sent Booth a message on Facebook wishing him luck. Also, a note warning him not to "camp it up too much".
"When I finally saw George, when I walked into a room and he was there, eating breakfast, I had tears in my eyes," Booth says. "Because I was living him."
He does seem to inhabit his characters, who are soon to include Pip in Great Expectations, and Romeo in Julian Fellowes's Romeo and Juliet. Last summer he had a lusty moment in the press, when he appeared in the BBC's bookish romp through the life of Christopher Isherwood. Though prepared for the inevitable scandal that comes with filming gay sex scenes with Matt Smith, he wasn't ready for one complainant who wrote to the Radio Times about a publicity still of Smith and Booth sunbathing semi-naked on lakeside decking. "I couldn't take my eye off the photo," wrote Matilda Walter from north London. "But the more I ogled, the more disappointed I became – Phillips decking screws used in a drama set before 1933?" Booth snorts with measured laughter. Many of his roles to date have been dark and/or sexy, so it was refreshing, he says, to do the teen romance LOL, opposite Miley Cyrus. "And weird. To be a heartthrob! And scary, too. Driving through France with Miley, flanked by security – the Parisian paps try and act as police escorts. It was bizarre and, interestingly, not at all glamorous."
It's hard to believe. He slouches on the sofa drenched in glamour, his Spanish/Dutch/ Sevenoaks "and maybe some Moorish?" ancestry fixing his face into planes that sells the hell out of Burberry when he models for them.
For our Observer shoot, it seemed appropriate to style him as Dorian Gray – the most beautiful man in literature, who, as Booth points out, "exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty and gradually sinks into a narcissistic life of degradation and crime." Booth's awfully good with words. But how important does he think looks are?
"We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. I suppose it helps if your face appearing 30ft high on a cinema screen doesn't cause a mass exit, but I'd like to think that being a friendly, kind-hearted individual has as much of a positive impact on an actor's career."
It's tricky to concentrate on what he's saying, I find, because his face looks so dreamy when he's saying it. Would he, like Dorian, want to live for ever?
"I'm not sure that would be so nice. It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe," he says. "I can settle for being immortalised on screen."
Great Expectations is on BBC1 on 27 December
Few Great Expectations pics.
Observer/Telegraph
Observer interview.
Douglas Booth: Lines of beauty
You could spend a lifetime gazing at pictures of Douglas Booth, so the Observer fashion team cast him as Dorian Gray, the man who sold his soul to remain gorgeous. Is this 19-year-old actor the most beautiful boy in the world?
Douglas Booth as Dorian Gray: formal blazer, £119.99, and trousers, £59.99, both Zara (zara.com). Evening shirt, £99, Thomas Pink (thomaspink.com). Feather cape, £12, Peacocks (peacocks.co.uk). Interchangeable cufflinks, £255, Lanvin (matchesfashion.com). Photograph: Jason Hetherington for the Observer
You're disgustingly good looking," I say. I can't help it. It's been on the tip of my tongue, like a complimentary ulcer, ever since I sat down opposite Douglas Booth, here, on a sofa, at a London hotel of his choice. He looks like naive art. He looks like an Elizabeth Peyton painting. I've actually interrupted him. He was in the middle of telling me about his worst nightmare – being leched at in a nightclub. "But you're ridiculously handsome. Look at you," I screech. Somebody looks up from their tea. Booth, to his credit, grimaces. Even with his mouth twisted, though, he looks beautiful. I grind my teeth to stop more praise falling out.
Booth is 19 years old. He first entered our consciousness playing Boy George in the TV drama Worried About the Boy. His eyebrows were shaved off for ease of make-up application but, despite the two looking nothing alike he filled the role, at 17 playing George through his heroin 20s. George sent Booth a message on Facebook wishing him luck. Also, a note warning him not to "camp it up too much".
"When I finally saw George, when I walked into a room and he was there, eating breakfast, I had tears in my eyes," Booth says. "Because I was living him."
He does seem to inhabit his characters, who are soon to include Pip in Great Expectations, and Romeo in Julian Fellowes's Romeo and Juliet. Last summer he had a lusty moment in the press, when he appeared in the BBC's bookish romp through the life of Christopher Isherwood. Though prepared for the inevitable scandal that comes with filming gay sex scenes with Matt Smith, he wasn't ready for one complainant who wrote to the Radio Times about a publicity still of Smith and Booth sunbathing semi-naked on lakeside decking. "I couldn't take my eye off the photo," wrote Matilda Walter from north London. "But the more I ogled, the more disappointed I became – Phillips decking screws used in a drama set before 1933?" Booth snorts with measured laughter. Many of his roles to date have been dark and/or sexy, so it was refreshing, he says, to do the teen romance LOL, opposite Miley Cyrus. "And weird. To be a heartthrob! And scary, too. Driving through France with Miley, flanked by security – the Parisian paps try and act as police escorts. It was bizarre and, interestingly, not at all glamorous."
It's hard to believe. He slouches on the sofa drenched in glamour, his Spanish/Dutch/ Sevenoaks "and maybe some Moorish?" ancestry fixing his face into planes that sells the hell out of Burberry when he models for them.
For our Observer shoot, it seemed appropriate to style him as Dorian Gray – the most beautiful man in literature, who, as Booth points out, "exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty and gradually sinks into a narcissistic life of degradation and crime." Booth's awfully good with words. But how important does he think looks are?
"We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. I suppose it helps if your face appearing 30ft high on a cinema screen doesn't cause a mass exit, but I'd like to think that being a friendly, kind-hearted individual has as much of a positive impact on an actor's career."
It's tricky to concentrate on what he's saying, I find, because his face looks so dreamy when he's saying it. Would he, like Dorian, want to live for ever?
"I'm not sure that would be so nice. It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe," he says. "I can settle for being immortalised on screen."
Great Expectations is on BBC1 on 27 December
Few Great Expectations pics.
Observer/Telegraph
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He is soooo heartbreakingly goodlooking. I am obsessed.
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He is so so so gorgeous. 
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THE LOOK: MR DOUGLAS BOOTH
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He looks like a mix between my boyfriend Chace Crawford && Ed Westwick.
I loved him as Pip in Great Expectations, he was so good and he looked so handsome in his costume,
I hated how he ended up with Estella though...purely because she was a b*tch to him and not attractive enough for him, but he always loved her because she was the only girl he knew as a child and grown man eventually.
I loved him as Pip in Great Expectations, he was so good and he looked so handsome in his costume,
I hated how he ended up with Estella though...purely because she was a b*tch to him and not attractive enough for him, but he always loved her because she was the only girl he knew as a child and grown man eventually.
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They did sort of mangle the plot of Great Expectations but they only have 3hours I suppose, even if they did change quite a few things. It was a good piece of Tv drama, it was a shame they didn't pick a prettier Estella though, the young Estella was gorgeous, looked like a mini Carey Mulligan.
I know Douglas is only young and for all his beauty he's going to really grow into himself something wonderful in 10 years or so I think. He's an interesting prospect and the horrible Miley Cyrus film aside I'm looking forward to his next move. Men always seem take a little longer to grow into their looks than women, most don't really look their best until they hit about 30 IMO.
I know Douglas is only young and for all his beauty he's going to really grow into himself something wonderful in 10 years or so I think. He's an interesting prospect and the horrible Miley Cyrus film aside I'm looking forward to his next move. Men always seem take a little longer to grow into their looks than women, most don't really look their best until they hit about 30 IMO.
