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Six Signs: Six Songs (with Robert Macfarlane, Hélöise Tunstall-Behrens, and Luisa Gerstein) (2022) [44] Double trouble: Johnny Flynn (right) in The Score, a musical heist featuring his songs and co-starring Will Poulter (left). Photograph: LMK

Wise, Louise (30 September 2018). "Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn interview: the boys on True West, Game of Thrones and the traumas of brotherly love". The Times. 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. Yet he hasn’t watched one on stage for years. “These days,” he says, “I feel constantly failed by them. I stopped paying to see musicals in the days of the band biopic musical, because I found them really awful.” Flynn won a music scholarship to Pilgrims School, an independent school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, where he sang in the chapel choir and was required, because of his scholarship, to learn two instruments: the violin and trumpet. [5] Later, he taught himself guitar and won a second music scholarship to Bedales School, an independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield, also in Hampshire, [5] before moving on to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting.

Bosanquet, Theo (3 February 2012). "Cast: Spiro is Globe Shrew, Flynn & Barnett support Rylance". What's On Stage . Retrieved 11 August 2014. Flynn remembers his first school leading role – a one-act Harold Pinter play called The Lover consisting of just him and a co-star. He remembers the thrill of it; the intensity of acting. His father had come to watch, and Flynn ran towards him after the show, eager for approval. “And I remember for 10 minutes him talking about how amazing [his co-star] Tasha was. And then he turned to me and said: ‘You need to keep your hands still.’” In 2015, he was one of the stars of the Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood. In it, he played one of two adult brothers who have to raise their younger brother when their mother unexpectedly dies. It was billed as the British version of the US sitcom Two and a Half Men. [10] Brotherhood... coming soon to Comedy Central". Comedycentral.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015 . Retrieved 24 October 2017.

Flynn has also written musical scores for films, television shows, and theatre productions. This includes writing the film score for the 2012 film A Bag of Hammers, and the score and theme song of the BBC Four television series Detectorists, [37] which he performed in a cameo appearance in series one, episode 3. In 2015, he also composed the music (on period instruments) for the Globe Theatre's production of As You Like It. [38] 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. JOHNNY FLYNN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 26 April 2021. Wollaston, Sam (3 October 2014). "Scrotal Recall; Detectorists; Peaky Blinders review – two charming comedies about sex and metal-detecting, and the return of the Shelby gang". The Guardian. a b "Eric Flynn". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013 . Retrieved 25 October 2013.

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. When he was younger, Flynn tells me, his father would often take him to play pool, but would never let his son win. He was only eight when they started to compete. Dargis, Manohla (17 March 2022). " 'The Outfit' Review: The Violent Measure of a Man". The New York Times . Retrieved 9 October 2022. As Flynn puts it: “There’d be something gross and vainglorious about playing the romantic lead in a film that’s using all my own songs…” Flynn was born on 14 March 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Eric Flynn, a British actor and singer, and Caroline Forbes. [3] He has a younger sister, Lillie Flynn, who sings with the Sussex Wit, and from his father's first marriage he has two older half-brothers, actors Jerome Flynn and Daniel Flynn, and an older half-sister, Kerry Flynn. [4] At the age of two, he moved with his family to the UK. [3]

The Motive and the Cue - Stage review 3 May 2023 (3 May 2023). "Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps". Independent. The Independent UK . Retrieved 24 May 2023. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) 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] Virtue, Graeme (16 November 2016). "A whole new ball game: the unlikely return of STI sitcom Scrotal Recall". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 November 2016.Spencer, Charles (28 March 2013). "The Low Road, Royal Court". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006 . Retrieved 11 August 2014.

Like those gatekeepers of Queen and Bowie, he briefly pondered his legacy (“Some of the songs I wrote when I was 20 years old…”), but in the end said yes on one condition: under no circumstances, he told them, would he play the lead role. They agreed. It went to Poulter instead. Fleming, Mike Jr. (13 September 2017). " 'Beast' Acquired For North America By 30WEST In Upstart's Third Major Toronto Deal". Deadline . Retrieved 23 January 2019. a b "Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane – 'Lost in the Cedar Wood' review". NME. 10 May 2021 . Retrieved 25 May 2021.Flynn got into Webber Douglas – a prestigious but unglamorous London drama school – just before his father died. Flynn thinks, he says, that his father would have ultimately been OK with that, even if he would have preferred his son had won a place at the more well-known Rada, from which he’d graduated. Patten, Dominic (28 May 2013). "Mary Steenburgen Joins Anne Hathaway In 'Song One' ". Deadline.com . Retrieved 11 August 2014. Crow, David (22 January 2020). " Talented Mr. Ripley Series Adds Johnny Flynn to Cast". Den of Geek . Retrieved 22 January 2021. Netflix Has Officially Renewed Scrotal Recall for Season 2". Premiere Date. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 10 April 2016. Sky Puts Darkly Comic Series 'The Lovers' From 'Doctor Foster' Producer Drama Republic Into Production". Deadline. 28 June 2023 . Retrieved 20 February 2023.