It cannot be a coincidence, however, that the two headline British films this year trade in nostalgia for second world war stiff upper lip: Nolan’s Dunkirk and the Churchill biopic Darkest Hour.
“It’s terrific that British actors seem to be all the rage in US movies,” says Woolley, “but that’s not necessarily an indication that the British film industry in is in good shape.
The idea that up-and-coming British actors are all public school-educated is no longer the case: Daniel grew up on a council estate, like Callum Turner and John Boyega.
Halligan, too, is full of praise: “He’s not an overnight success – there’s a lot of graft gone into that.