But if Marsan's is the career he would like to have – "The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better" – financiers and producers may have a different, glitzier trajectory in mind. "He's got a mixture of being incredibly young and vulnerable, and wisdom beyond his years."Īsked to name an actor he emulates, MacKay goes for Eddie Marsan, citing his chameleon-like disappearance into roles, as well as his no-nonsense manner on set. Nina Gold chose him for his second breakthrough role, in the Clive Owen father-and-sons drama The Boys Are Back (2009) she's also casting director on How I Live Now and Sunshine on Leith. "You get your chance in the room, and in my case it wasn't good enough." But he had enough champions already in the industry. "I think it's a fair audition process," he says. MacKay (left) in the Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith.Īt 17, MacKay applied, unsuccessfully, to both Rada and Lamda. It wasn't like, I needed to be doing acting." "I got to do school properly," he says, "and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. Work came "steadily and sparsely" through his formative years. We were 10 and 11 years old, on a full-size fake pirate ship, in a full-size fake forest, given stunt training, with half as much school to do, and we were in Australia, and we lived by a beach. At the time, he was unfazed to be spending eight months rehearsing and shooting in Australia. MacKay was just 10 when he landed his first film role, playing one of the Lost Boys in the PJ Hogan version of Peter Pan (2003). Encouraged to dig deep – "What have these boys seen, have they killed anyone, how fucked up are they?" – MacKay and co-star Kevin Guthrie initially embraced the director's note a little too enthusiastically: "We were coming in with: 'Yeah, let's make it fucking gritty, Fish Tank – the Musical.' Dexter was good at easing us into a bit of jazz hands now and again." At the last minute, however, casting logic impelled Fletcher to make a change, switching the actor into the romantic lead Davy, a more reflective, intricate character. What attracted him to Sunshine on Leith – the highest-profile of the hat-trick – was that the role he was set to play offered a change of pace: the confident, uncomplicated Ally. Today, MacKay is fresh from another battle: rehearsals for his new film, Pride, about gay activists raising money for the 1984 miners' strike.
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"He's an old head on a young pair of shoulders," agrees Sunshine's director, Dexter Fletcher. At 21, he has endured the first world war twice (Private Peaceful, Birdsong), the second world war another couple of times (Defiance, The Best of Men), as well as a global meltdown (How I Live Now) and a tour of duty in Afghanistan (Sunshine on Leith). MacKay's stock-in-trade is soulful and sensitive, complex and sincere.