Tom Blyth on Rom-coms, Dark Thrillers and Navigating Hollywood’s Spotlight
Despite charming the pants off of Netflix subscribers with his first foray into the rom-com space, Tom Blyth still can’t get used to the light and fun stuff. The 31-year-old spent much of the start of the year buzzing around in promotion of “People We Meet on Vacation,” a friends-to-lovers book adaptation movie. Yet he’s much more comfortable where he is now, chatting through prison reform and the manosphere as it relates to his dark crime thriller “Wasteman.” “I kind of love that,” the actor says of the whiplash. “No one quite knows what to expect.” The English actor first broke out in the MGM+ series “Billy the Kid” before joining “The Hunger Games” mega-franchise in the 2023 movie “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” Since then he’s plugged away at various dark indies, including last year’s Sundance hit “Plainclothes,” Claire Denis’ “The Fence” and now the British prison drama “Wasteman,” out April 17 in the U.S. Tom Blyth Matthew Priestley/WWD In the midst of all that, Blyth faced his fears of doing a romantic comedy and starred as Alex in “People We Meet on Vacation,” based on the book by Emily Henry. The story follows best friends Poppy, played by EmilyFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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