I don’t think I’m the only person to have fallen in motherly love with Nicholas Hoult when he was the 11-year-old in question in the film About a Boy, the hair on his signature winged eyebrows clinging for dear life on to the fringe of his bowl cut. He was a bit of a boy ever since, one of Britain’s most successful child stars turned pros, if not remaining quite as pure when acting with Dev Patel in the seedy TV series Skins or against Colin Firth in A Single Man, still all skinny knees and upturned lashes. But then I started watching The Great, a lavishly depraved comedy-drama series from Hulu now airing on Channel 4 and I think I can

Source: The Times January 05, 2021 00:00 UTC