I have added some new magazine scans of Theo James to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look and enjoy!

I have added some new scans and a new shoot of Theo James to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look and enjoy!

His scene-stealing performance as a philandering finance bro in The White Lotus was a dream role for the part-time Californian—now watch him superbloom as Guy Ritchie’s new lead

Theo James is having a moment. If you caught the second season of The White Lotus, you will recognize him as the moral trash fire that is Cameron, a finance bro on a luxury vacation in Italy, where he hits on his friend’s wife, cheats on his own wife with prostitutes, ingests all the MDMA and Aperol spritzes he can lay his hands on—and, somehow, still manages to be rather charming. You can see why every casting director in need of big masculine energy wants James’ number—and why a million fan-made montages of his pecs are posted on social media.

In the here and now, however, Theo James is having a “mare,” as they say in his native England. We were due to be conversing in the back of a Netflix-issued sedan between the C Magazine cover shoot and the set of The Gentlemen, the Guy Ritchie spin-off crime series in which James, 38, recently landed the lead role. But the car broke down. So, after some logistical back and forth, we are speaking as he pilots his own vehicle through the London traffic. “Driving and thinking, not easy,” he says. But he’s being modest. The man is unflappable, capable of negotiating a seven-way intersection while dissecting the moral-ethical implications of marriage, the sins of the one percent, and exactly what makes The White Lotus so fun to watch.

“It felt like a strange synthesis of things I had longed to do but hadn’t had an opportunity to do in a while,” James says. “Cameron is a big character, both literally and metaphorically. He’s also dark and complex, and childlike in his simplicity. Those things were interesting to me, in terms of how to bring them out with some kind of empathy.” There is a bit of Cameron in him, he explains—“especially when I’ve had a few drinks”—but the character was largely a composite of people he knew from university (including one who went on to work at Goldman Sachs) and a few characters he has met in the U.S., where he spends half his time: “People who are charming, dangerous, and also total c***s ultimately,” he says.

Swearing aside, James himself proves rather respectable. He grew up in small-town southern England, the youngest of five siblings in a happy-sounding household with many pet guinea pigs. His father was a business consultant, his mother worked for the National Health Service, and the family name is actually Taptiklis. His grandfather was a Greek doctor who initially sought refuge in Damascus, Syria, after fleeing the Nazi invasion, which explains James’ slight Mount Olympus vibe as well his work with the UN Refugee Council.
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