First came the pandemic, and now the actors’ strike. Micheal Ward has only been acting for seven years, and already the massive momentum his career has been gathering has had to stop, twice.
Not that you’d know by looking at the credits and awards he’s clocked up. In that short space of time he’s managed to win the coveted BAFTA Rising Star Award (previous winners include Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya and John Boyega) as well as earning two BAFTA nominations, the first for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: Lovers Rock, which he can’t talk about because of the strike, and the second for Sam Mendes’s film Empire of Light, which he can’t talk about either. Nor can he talk about playing Jamie in Top Boy, the role that brought him to the world’s attention when it was revived in 2019.
