“Jennifer has verbal diarrhoea. When she does interviews, I’m like, ‘What did you say about me this time?’ Oh, man. It’s become a running joke. There are some stinkers of quotes.” Now you come to mention it, I have one of Jennifer’s proclamations right here, ”He has absolutely no idea how good looking he is.” Hoult bursts out laughing, “Sounds terrible, doesn’t it? But it’s very sweet.”
He then concentrates on stuffing as much of that cheeseburger into his mouth as possible. He does concede, however, through mouthfuls of cow, that they’re very happy, they have to put in “a bit of hard work” to make their long-distance relationship work, and that she’s taught him to unwind a bit. “She’s much more relaxed about everything, whereas I’m British, I’m uptight.”
Like many actors whose working life is itinerant and unpredictable, he seems to crave security. “There’s a bit of a trap with actors—they become famous, they get a lot of attention from girls and get caught up in that. And they end up being a stud for 20 years and suddenly realise they can’t find a nice normal girl to settle down with, even though they’ve got models coming out of their ears. It’s kind of a sad situation,” he pauses. “You want to put roots down, have something to grasp on to. It’s fun travelling around, living out of a suitcase, but it can be lonely.”
He counters this with evenings in LA spent on the sofa under a duvet watching movies with Lawrence. Back home he has nights in the pub with his friends, plays basketball, and messes around on his motorbike.Nicholas Hoult for ELLE UK, March 2013 (+)
