His character’s gruesome death in Midsommar (don’t Google “blood eagle”
on a full stomach) didn’t shock ARCHIE MADEKWE (below), but the acid-
pagan horror flick’s big laughs did. “I wasn’t aware we were making this
black comedy until I went to the cinema and audiences were cracking up.”
Next up: playing a young man born with special abilities on Apple TV+’s See.
DAMSON IDRIS (right) does serious seriously well. Proof? See him as a
kidnapped intern in the “Smithereens” episode of Black Mirror. But he’s
perhaps best known for his turn as Franklin Saint, a South Central L. A. drug
dealer, on FX’s Snowfall. “Americans were shocked I wasn’t actually Amer-
ican,” Idris says. “But don’t worry, I’m still London through and through.”Jacket ($5,995) and shirt ($695) by Ralph Lauren.84 MARCH 2020 FOR STORE INFORMATION SEE PAGE 115. PRODUCTION: DANNY NEEDHAM AT ROSCO PRODUCTIONS. GROOMING: CIONA JOHNSON KING AND JULIA CARTA AT AART LONDON. ASSISTANT STYLISTS: JESSIE CULLEY, LYDIA MARIE O’BRIEN.