![]() If I go I’m always the first one out the door, off to get a beer with my mates instead. ![]() What about Hollywood networking? The stream of openings, screenings and premiers? “My publicists say: ‘Alex you should really go to this one’, but they know I’m not into it. “I go through phases of not liking the pretention and sycophantic nature of LA but I can be surfing in 10 minutes and snowboarding in two hours - I love the connection with nature.” Now he lives in a flat in Venice Beach, preferring to frequent Downtown dive bars than glossier private members’ clubs. “I have to be there for work,” he says in his west London drawl, well-spoken but definitely not posh. “Don’t get me wrong, there were forms filled out, but something always came up that stopped me going for it.” I worked on a fruit stall in Chiswick High Road, helped my dad out with handyman stuff and did a stint as a painter and decorator, although I was artistic in the multiple ways I conjured up to doss off.”ĭrama school beckoned but Roe found he was getting enough work not to bother. “At the same time I was still playing football and doing all manner of jobs. It would be lovely to sit under the radar and make good movies’įrom there, Roe did the rounds with bit parts in Holby City, Hollyoaks and cult teen drama The Cut. ‘I have no desire to be famous, definitely not.
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