Will Poulter

Poulter auditions for the comedy:

I’ve always found that I have to audition, but that’s a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and We’re The Millers was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.

Poulter plays the lead character in a production of Letting Go. Summary from the Harrodian school’s December 2010 Harrodian Eye magazine:

He falls in love with a girl (Lily Lewis) only to find her psychotic attachment to him eventually leads her to attempt suicide: she sets herself on fire with nail polish and the letters he sent her. Then we jump to his fuming wife (Alba Faggionato) who ends up sellotaping her husband and sticking letters from his suicidal ex-girlfriend from his head to his toes. Whilst we follow this unfortunate man’s life there are little sketches revolving around letters, whether it be Ellie McKenzie having a go at God or two postmen frantically delivering letters to two competing girls.

Poulter stars as Eustace Scrubb in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader. The unpleasant cousin of the Pevensie family, Eustace is transported with them to the land of Narnia, and learns to value others during a magical journey.

 I first read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books. [I] absolutely loved them. I think most kids do. … I never in a million years would have guessed I’d be part of this. It really is so surreal to me now. I pinch myself when I see posters and boxes with our faces on them. It really is crazy.

Poulter confirms he is cast in the Dexter Fletcher-directed drama.

It’s about a disadvantaged kid living in London and he sort of looks after his little brother. His dad is in prison, and when his dad comes back, it turns his world upside down. It’s very interesting.

Poulter appears in the second series broadcast on Channel 4. Sketches include the return of South African security guards The Saffas, and the characters Museum Perv and The Cabbie. New characters include The Filth, self-referential coppers from the 1970s, and Leonard Lizard, a repressed homosexual city trader from the 1980s.

What was nice about School of Comedy was that we started out as a completely unprofessional unit, so our mums were doing the costumes and our dads were driving us to rehearsals, so it was a real family environment. So it’s nice for them that they were part of it all right from the beginning. Now they can take a back seat and just watch the end product. They’ve always been a huge part of it, and supported me all the way. I know how lucky I am to have that constant support.

Hamilton Hodell lists Poulter as playing the character Mac.

Poulter appears in School Of Comedy on Channel 4. The sketches feature an extremely rude landlady, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, white van men, an eccentric estate agent to some hapless South African security guards.

Especially with comedy, an audience’s response is so important, and to find out there were people out there who wanted to see it on TV every week was such an amazing thing, and we’re so grateful for that.

Hamilton Hodell lists a role for Poulter in the sketch show directed by Kathy Burke. It doesn’t name the role.