Dylan Llewellyn’s trips to Tesco are a bit different these days. He was recently in Belfast, perusing the shelves and minding his own business, Covid mask and all. But still, a fan clocked him: here was that “wee English fella” off the telly. “I was trying to be undercover,” the Derry Girls star tells me. “But the fan was like, ‘I recognised your accent and your curls.’”
In fact, Llewellyn hears this nickname no matter where he goes. It’s a sign of the Channel 4 show’s phenomenal impact that he’s now known to millions of fans around the world as the series’ “wee English fella” – although at 5ft 9in he’s bang-on average height for a Brit. Llewellyn was washing dishes when his agent called to tell him he’d got the part. “I’d had a year of nothingness, really. I wasn’t getting many auditions and I couldn’t really land anything,” he says. “It was a tough time… then I found out I’d been cast in Derry Girls and I was like, ‘Nooo wayyy!’ It pulled me right back into the acting world. It was awesome.”
