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Daily Mail
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jodie Comer confesses her childhood celebrity crush was this noughties pop icon
Jodie Comer confessed her childhood celebrity crush while promoting her post-apocalyptic zombie film 28 Years Later. The actress, 32, was quizzed on who in the public eye she fancied as a teenager during a recent live audience Q&A session at the Adelphi Theatre in London by Reign podcast host Josh Smith. Revealing the object of her affections was Lee Ryan, now 42, she said: 'Oh God, guys, it was Lee from Blue. Okay, no judgement, I appreciate that. 'Blue were big. I have like pictures from the Echo Arena - surely the Echo Arena was built then. 'But em, Blue T-shirt, bunches, blue hair, you know the lot. Yeah, obviously thinking that he's gonna look at me, and it's gonna be us forever. Yeah, Lee from Blue.' Blue, who formed in 2000, went on to become one of the biggest pop bands of the time with hits like One Love. Jodie put on a show-stopping display in a metallic silver gown at the London premiere of 28 Years Later earlier this month. The actress slipped into the eye-catching dress as she graced the red carpet at London's Odeon Luxe Leicester Square with co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 35, on June 18. The release of 28 Years Later - the sequel to Danny Boyle's 2002 film 28 Days Later - has been long-awaited, with fans left waiting two decades to discover the next instalment in the film series. With the nation devastated by the Rage virus nearly three decades ago, the new film - released on June 19 - shows insight into the vastly different ways humanity has adapted to survive. For one such community, this means complete isolation from the outside world, and in a new clip ahead of the film's premiere, star Aaron shares insight into this new addition to the 28 Days Later universe for the first time. In this new land, known as The Holy Island, humans are entirely self-sufficient, and only leave the community to hunt on the mainland, when the tide is low. Aaron plays Jamie a scavenger who is tasked with training his Spike to survive in the wilderness before they embark on a deadly mission to the mainland. Jodie plays Jamie's wife Isla, a woman who is suffering from memory loss and sickness. While the flick is intended to petrify movie fans, Jodie has told how despite starring in the film, she was left startled herself as she insisted that one 'can't fake' the emotions she exhibited on screen. Speaking in a featurette ahead of the film's release later this month, Jodie explained: 'Being on a Danny Boyle set, I found it to be the most amazing experience. 'The relationship that the camera seemed to be having with the characters and the story and seeing how that comes to life. 'I was quite taken aback because I felt like I'd spent a lot of time outdoors in the beautiful locations and then all of a sudden, I'm being chased. 'I was scared - there is a kind of tension within it, you can't fake it. When you're in these high-intensity situations, it's exhilarating, it's thrilling, it's terrifying.'
BBC News
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
28 Years Later: 'I starred in zombie film I'm too young to watch'
An 11-year-old actor who stars in the newly released 28 Years Later has said he will have to wait four years before he can watch the 15 certificate film. Rocco, from Leeds, plays 'Young Jimmy' in the latest instalment of Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic zombie trilogy, which came out on Thursday. Starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes parts of the movie were shot in Bradford and locations in North at the film's gala premiere, Rocco said: "I wasn't allowed to watch it, but I got to step on the carpet, have a few photos, which was amazing." Rocco said: "All the crew, Danny Boyle, the director, and everyone on set looked after me really, really nicely. I was spoiled, to be honest."After every take they'd just see if I was ok, because all the scenes I was filming were quite scary."His mum, Gemma, 41, said the whole family were "so proud of Rocco". Speaking about the young thespian's acting skills, she said: "His natural accent is really quite broad, Yorkshire. "But for this particular film, he had to use a Scottish accent. So that were really good to see." She added: "To be able to portray such a brilliant character in such an amazing film, and to work with Danny Boyle so closely was a real privilege." Meanwhile, after answering a casting call on social media David Wilkin, 46, made it into the film as a zombie extra, featuring in one scene with 20 other zombies attacking a priest in a church filmed in Stanwick St John, near said: "I saw the advert looking for fit, thin people and I thought why not give it a try."He said he had spent each day "covered in fake blood head to toe - all your hair, your face, covered in blood".He described the film's director, Danny Boyle, as "an all-seeing eye, watching everybody"."He let everyone get on with what they were doing. He was a presence in the church, but a pretty cool one," he Wilkin said he had attended the North East Gala Screening of the film in an attempt to spot himself on he said as the scene he was in was a "frenetic zombie attack" he would have "needed a pause button see myself". The Yorkshire Dales National Park was used for some filming locations, including Aysgarth Falls, Redmire and Fountains Evans from Fountains Abbey said film makers had wanted to play with the idea of the abbey "as a place of peace and sanctuary" in contrast to the manic scenes going she said during filming she had been very careful to ensure visitors to the historic landmark were not surprised by naked zombies lurking in the grounds of the Grade I listed said: "One of our stipulations was we would not close the site fully during filming."So we had to be really careful during a scene with 'the infected' in it, to make sure we were not startling people too much, because the way that they look they don't have clothes on." Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
