Virtue, Graeme (16 November 2016). "A whole new ball game: the unlikely return of STI sitcom Scrotal Recall". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 November 2016. In 2020, he starred in Emma, [16] Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy, and Josh O'Connor. He wrote the song played over the ending credits, "Queen Bee," which was released as a single alongside the film. The next year, he co-starred in another British film The Dig, which was released on Netflix on 29 January 2021. He plays the character of Rory Lomax. [17] Despite the limited finances, Flynn attended two prestigious boarding schools on musical scholarships – first The Pilgrims’ School, in Winchester, where he learned the violin and the trumpet, then Bedales School, near Petersfield, by which time he’d taught himself the guitar. Bosanquet, Theo (3 February 2012). "Cast: Spiro is Globe Shrew, Flynn & Barnett support Rylance". What's On Stage . Retrieved 11 August 2014. In 2011, Flynn's music was used in the film A Bag of Hammers. In 2013, Flynn was cast in Song One, a film starring Anne Hathaway. Flynn plays a musician by the name of James Forester, who becomes involved with Hathaway's character, following an accident involving her brother. [7]

It’s something Flynn came up against again when cast as a young David Bowie in the 2020 biopic Stardust. Unlike the stage-to-screen jukebox vehicles, Stardust aimed to do something more ambitious: tell the tale of a pre-superstardom Bowie on his first trip to the US. Yet Bowie’s gatekeepers refused to license any of his music.Sneider, Jeff (31 January 2019). "David Bowie Movie in the Works Starring Actor-Singer Johnny Flynn". Collider . Retrieved 31 January 2019. JOHNNY FLYNN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 26 April 2021. He co-wrote the song Coins for Eyes with Robert Macfarlane for the 9th series of the BBC archaeology programme Digging for Britain. [40] Personal life [ edit ] Flynn’s father, Eric, was an actor in musical theatre, introducing his son to both music and acting at a young age. Yet his father’s greatest desire, Flynn says, was that none of his children follow in his footsteps. In this he did not succeed: both of Flynn’s older brothers and his sister are actors.

The Score, therefore, puts Flynn in a unique position. For once, he wasn’t an actor at the mercy of a musical gatekeeper. He was the musical gatekeeper.

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In 2019, he starred as David Bowie in the drama Stardust, based on a screenplay by Christopher Bell and directed by Gabriel Range. [15]

Schurr, Maria (22 November 2010). "Johnny Flynn: Been Listening, PopMatters". PopMatters . Retrieved 26 April 2021. Rudland, Victoria (12 February 2011). "Theatre Review: The Heretic @ Royal Court". Londonist . Retrieved 30 March 2012. He sensed it was what I wanted to do, and so he needed me to get it right,” Flynn says now. Eric died from cancer when Flynn was 18. He still keeps his dad’s old Casio watch in a box that he and his wife, Beatrice Minns – with whom he has three children – keep on their mantelpiece, where they keep their most treasured possessions. It still, he says, smells of him. For a few years, Flynn also held on to hundreds of his father’s old polyester shirts, but eventually realised it was healthier to let them go.

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Spencer, Charles (28 March 2013). "The Low Road, Royal Court". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006 . Retrieved 11 August 2014. For Flynn, countless losses later, he identified a way to win in pool by exploiting his father’s longsightedness. “I just had to take seven years to work it out.” It was, he supposes, “a big, long, overarching life lesson”, though he isn’t entirely sure for what. Keep trying, perhaps? Success is hard, possibly? Or maybe just keep your options open, you never know when your big break will come. Six Signs: Six Songs (with Robert Macfarlane, Hélöise Tunstall-Behrens, and Luisa Gerstein) (2022) [44] a b Purcell, Andrew (2 December 2010). "Johnny Flynn's special relationship". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 October 2013.