Tom Blyth is about to get extremely popular. In a few months’ time, the British actor’s steely blue eyes and tousled Caesar haircut will be beamed into living rooms across the world as Netflix’s latest streaming heartthrob. People We Meet on Vacation is based on the romcom bestseller by Emily Henry, and will inevitably take Blyth’s fame stratospheric. But Blyth himself doesn’t seem remotely phased. “It’ll probably last five minutes,” he shrugs. “Then I’ll be back to walking my dog.”
The fleeting nature of things is a recurring topic when I meet the 30-year-old in central London. He’s fresh off the Eurostar from Paris Fashion Week – he was a special guest at YSL’s show – but even the excitement of that glitzy environment was brief. “You’re in this elite world for about five minutes and then you step back into real life,” he tells me. And when we discuss the resulting fanfare of headlining one of 2023’s biggest blockbusters – the action prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – he says it was short-lived, and “calmed down very quickly”.
