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NOVEMBER 2015

INTRODUCING...

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Where did SuperBob come from?

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SUPERBOB IS OUT ON OCTOBER 16.

Owen Harris coaches

Nicholas Hoult on how

to be a right nasty

piece of work. Below:

Submarine’s Craig

Roberts as Darren.

SYCHOPATHS ARE

the best actors in the

world” says Nicholas

Hoult. Thankfully

this isn’t a confession.

Instead Hoult is

simply playing

a psycho in Owen Harris’ Kill Your

Friends. As Steven Stelfox the antihero

A&R man at a record company during

the Britpop boom of ’97 Hoult gets

enough blood piss and cocaine on

his hands to last a lifetime.

“The easy pitch is American Psycho

in the music biz” says producer Gregor

Cameron. Not that Stelfox is simply

a British version of Christian Bale’s

iconic serial killer. “There’s a fear and

desperation that marks Stelfox apart

from your Patrick Batemans” says

Hoult. So more like a sociopathic Simon

Cowell? “Yeah — there’s been times I’ll

say a line and feel that Cowell smirk

creeping across my face. Stelfox is

a tricky twisted toe-curling character

but hopefully you’ll be rooting for him.”

The fi lm is based on the novel of

the same name by Scottish writer John

Niven loosely inspired by his own

time in the record biz. Niven likens

it to Coppola’s frazzled experience

on Apocalypse Now. “We were young

had too much money” he says. “Little

by little we all went insane.”

Today at the Electric Ballroom in

Camden insanity is evident. On the

dancefl oor 500 extras are raring for

a bout of rehearsed hedonism. On the

balcony Hoult sneers down looking like

Satan in Gucci loafers. Strobes fl ash and

a techno track — a tune from Stelfox’s

latest signing DJ Rudi — fi lls the room.

“Killer tune this” says Hoult between

takes. “It’s called Why Don’t You Suck

My Fucking Dick...” SC

KILL YOUR FRIENDS IS OUT ON

NOVEMBER 6.

ON-SET EXCLUSIVE

NICHOLAS HOULT ON CREATING A NEW SCREEN

MONSTER IN KILL YOUR FRIENDS...

BRITISH PSYCHO