It was a long five years for Nathaniel Curtis. Having graduated drama school, the soon-to-be star of It’s A Sin struggled to find a decent acting gig and was forced to dabble in retail, education and charity work – “doing the rounds”, as he calls it. Quitting acting was not an option, though. He’d known that from an early age. “School was not a place for me,” he tells me. “It wasn’t a place where I was happy… I had different interests, but acting was always the one thing that I couldn’t see myself not doing.”
Finally Curtis’s patience paid off. He was cast as Romeo in a touring outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet in 2019. The ball started rolling. It was during rehearsals that he was called in to audition for “The Boys”, a new drama from Russell T Davies. The show would be renamed It’s A Sin and make the nation cry a thousand tears. Curtis and his castmates Olly Alexander, Lydia West, Omari Douglas and Callum Scott Howells became stars overnight.
