“It’s a really terrible route to go down if we start restricting people’s casting based on their personal lives,” he says. Rocketman has had some criticism around whether straight actors should play gay parts, so I ask Madden about this. Madden hasn’t seen the film either, which makes things tricky, but we press on. Taron Egerton plays Elton, and Jamie Bell is Bernie Taupin, Elton’s friend and lyricist. I’ve only been allowed to see a taster, but it looks splashy and fun, with full-on musical numbers at one point Elton and the audience levitate in the middle of Crocodile Rock. What did you do? “I waited for her to stop, and then asked her if she wanted a chat.” He smiles, a little ruefully: what can you do?Īnyway, Rocketman. When he was in Game Of Thrones, he had a woman come up and just scream in his face. So, he says, he knows enough for the shift in status not to go to his head – and he can cope with the attention.
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Madden has had a taste of this all-consuming busyness before: with Game Of Thrones, in his early 20s, and even before then, when he was cast, aged 12, in a BBC One series called Barmy Aunt Boomerang. I should have got a really sexy one-bed loft in Clerkenwell.” He was trying to be sensible, but stardom was beckoning. It’s a little three-bedroom family house that I bought because I thought that was what I should do. “A double-breasted suit and a big Cuban heel. “I loved those heels, in the end,” he says when we meet. So while Bodyguard was on, he was getting up to jazz-hands standard, while wearing a pair of 70s Cuban heels. Madden plays John Reid, Elton’s first manager and one-time lover, and the script required him to sing and dance, neither of which are part of his natural skill set. That something was Rocketman, the Elton John biopic. Yet all this hype and bluster happened while Madden was busy doing something else. By the final episode, he had been upgraded from “ex- Game Of Thrones guy” (he played Robb Stark for the first three series) to potential James Bond. There were threads devoted to his eyebrows, as well as other parts of his anatomy. Social media was aflame every Sunday, with much of the heat centred on Madden, his good looks and his stoic “Ma’ams”. It was a national event, achieving the BBC’s largest drama audience for a decade.
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He played the tight-mouthed, tight-muscled David Budd, personal minder to Keeley Hawes’ home secretary, Julia Montague, in Jed Mercurio’s six-part BBC One thriller, and the country went bananas.īodyguard was great TV – gripping, unpredictable, sexy, with a madly OTT finale – but nobody could have predicted the furore it would cause. This happened to Richard Madden with Bodyguard, in August last year. The right part comes along, the world notices, and boom! their whole life is different. F or some lucky actors, there are moments when their career suddenly shifts into a higher gear.