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Rising British actor Matthew Broome, the star of Apple TV’s “The Buccaneers” and the “My Fault: London” franchise on Prime Video, doesn’t know where his next job is coming from but says, “I would love to audition” for
the next James Bond movie.
Broome will receive the International Golden Nymph for Most Promising Talent at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival on Tuesday. “This is my first award ever in my career and it’s unbelievable to me that there are people out there recognizing me for my work,” he says, beaming.
Speaking ahead of the awards ceremony, he adds: “It shows that I’m going in the direction that I want to and it’s going to hopefully open more doors for me and for my career in the future. It’s truly an honor.”
“Your Fault: London,” the second film in the popular franchise, drops this week and continues the turbulent romantic saga of American teenager Noah (Asha Banks) and her “bad boy” stepbrother Nick (Broome). Did the success of the first installment take him by surprise? “Yes, because with streamers there’s so much that gets made now and things can get lost in the ether.”
The trilogy, whose final installment “Our Fault: London” in in post, is based on the hugely successful Spanish-language versions that preceded it, which in turn were drawn from Mercedes Ron’s YA novels. “So, we already had a fan base,” Matthew says. “I wasn’t too familiar with the success of the films and the books, but when Asha was explaining it to me it started to really sink in and I was like ‘We’re not sending it out into nothing’.
“But it was a bit daunting because not everyone was too pleased that we were making an English version already [the first Spanish film came out in 2023], which was understandable. I remember when we were first announced and it didn’t land the most positively because we’d done such a quick turnaround to do an English version of something that was already so loved. There was definitely a lot of pressure once that first film came out, and when it did and it was so well received we were just like ‘We did it!'”
Broome doesn’t know where his next job is coming from, “and that’s exciting, well, exciting and terrifying.” As a young British actor has he been asked to audition for the next James Bond movie? Matthew laughs. “No, I haven’t, but I would love to. Who wouldn’t? But no, I haven’t auditioned for it.”
And with the second and third films done back-to-back, is he done with the “Fault” franchise? “Well at the moment, we are done, but you never know. I mean, Mercedes has written a fourth book, and you never know what’s going to happen in the future. Never say never.”
