The excellent Tom Hollander has been quietly working away as one of our finest actors for decades. He’s often the one you remember from a scene or an episode even if you aren’t quite sure who he is. That’s a great ability in an actor.
His role as Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster MP in In The Loop is probably his most visible to date. But he was the weedy-but-slimy Mister Collins in Pride and Prejudice, petty Lord Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, Saffy’s fiance in Absolutely Fabulous – and many other roles which he inhabited with exceptional ease and skill.
Anyway, he’s ace and we were delighted to learn recently that he’s a fan of Sunspel. He’s even wearing a Sunspel t-shirt in this photoshoot from the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. You just can’t see it. Which seems somehow fitting.