I am normally depressed when beautiful young actors that I crush on hard go off and get married to Some Woman, but Saoirse Ronan is not just "some woman" so I will not only allow it, Jack Lowden, I will give you both a hearty congratulations. They're one of my favorite celebrity couples, and I love the fact that they didn't announce their marriage at all -- the only reason we know it happened is that a newspaper went snooping in Scotland's govermental wedding registries (thx Mac). I don't love the invasion of privacy, mind you -- I just love that they, with typical loveliness, didn't seek out press. They seem like good true folk! And yes I am a legendarily terrible judge of character, but I still believe this to be true!
I mean they met making a movie where Jack fucks hot boys on the side -- if that ain't romance I don't know what is. In all seriousness they are two of the finest moving-picture actors we have -- Saoirse has had multiple opportunities to prove this (and Jack produced her next, the Sundance stunned The Outrun, which very well might finally and deservedly win her an Oscar) but Jack remains deeply under-appreciated. Why nobody is plumbing his depths like Terence Davies did in Benediction I admit I remain baffled. That's truly one of the decade's best turns -- so where the hell are all of his big roles dammit? The movies are broken.
Anyway I was just going to point you to my long-running Jack Lowden Appreciation Thread on Twitter with this here congratulations to the newlyweds, but then I stumbled upon a 2022 photoshoot of him from the magazine The Laterals that I've inexplicably never posted, and so I shall now do just that. How I missed these gorgeous photos I'll never! So go on and hit the jump and celebrate the boy (and his lady too, by way of the boy)...
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He’s really great in Slow Horses. I feel like you’ve mentioned an aversion to Gary Oldman in the past, but it’s a fun show. Bourne Identity mixed with dry British humor.
Sad that another crush has gotten hitched off, but I do love Saoirse, so congrats to them both! I’ll never forget when I first saw him in Dunkirk. Went for Nolan, Hardy and Murphy…… stayed for him.
I think her Oscar nom will be coming from Blitz not The Outrun...
Blitz makes sense to me, Anon! It's def the larger profile movie. But I think TO will be that smaller movie that helps push the larger one over the finish line
I think I really fell in love with him in Benediction and have followed his career since. I totally agree that he is shamefully underrated and I love that he has also a pretty major stage career, Love Slow Horses and can't wait for the next season. Last season was an interesting departure from the past ones.
I'll be seeing him in the world premiere of a play called 'The Fifth Step' at the Edinburgh International Festival in about three weeks. The Festival website says, "David Ireland’s latest collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland tells a complex story about men, intimacy and our belief systems."
Rick Cosnett is the gay version of him.
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