I’m straight as an arrow but Jude Law's an incredibly attractive man. He's got the X Factor!
Life at MKP Towers is pretty fab – we get to talk celebs, lads and fashion from dawn till dusk! But our very favourite days are when we get to meet stars – and even better when they’re hot, male, charming and dimpled! Which is why we wore extra-big smiles when we found out we were going to chat to hot young Brit actor Rafi Gavron.
In the name of all things MKP, we did our best to prise as much juicy information out of him as we could. So now we know... what he was like when he was little, how he became famous, who his perfect girl is, why he’d like to be Mowgli from The Jungle Book, how come he can run up walls (yes really!) and and how come he’s best mates with Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford! Prepare to fall in love MKPers!
You’ve starred alongside some super-famous actors and actresses now, like Helen Mirren, Juliette Binoche and Jude Law, do you ever get starstruck?
Who by the most?
I think it was probably Jude Law. I’m straight as an arrow but he’s an incredibly attractive man and he’s got a level of charisma that surrounds him which is just shocking. I mean he’s got the X Factor!
Tell us a bit about you…
I grew up in North London, in Primrose Hill, so I’m from a North London Jewish family with an American mother. I had a pretty privileged childhood – I grew up in a nice house, I’ve got two little brothers, and two cats and I went to a private school – I did that whole deal. Then I left school when I was 15…
How come?
I hate school, I hated it!
How did that go down with your parents?
Fantastically! They were shocked! It was a strange time. That was when I was doing Breaking and Entering so I just told school, ‘Later!’. I tried to go back at one point and go to college, but that only lasted for six months. I met a beautiful girl there and that lasted for two years but that was the only positive thing to come out of that!
Did you do your GCSEs?
I did one, in English and got a B.
What were you like as a little boy?
Well I don’t remember, but my mum says I was always an attention seeker. And there are some stories about me when I was about two years old when I’d describe things as ‘amphibious’ and tell people off when they were smoking because lighters were ‘flammable’ – just the most ridiculous things!
Did you always want to be an actor?
No not at all, I had no idea! I still have no idea!
How did the acting thing happen?
I played MacBeth in a school play, which my father convinced me to do – it turns out my drama teacher had been telling me since I was a kid that I had something there, but no one ever told me anything. So he convinced me to do the school play and everyone was like, ‘You can act!’ so I went to a family friend who is an agent, and he said that the business is all about rejection and told me not expect a call for nine months and then the next day he called me and said ‘There’s this big role in a film with Jude Law, it’s your first audition, just go for the experience’. So I went up and I saw the material and I went for it, and it took a while, but I knew it was mine from the get go.
What did you want to be when you were younger?
I wanted to be a train driver at one point. I probably wanted to be a fireman or something at like three or four. But from 10 to 15 I really had no passions. At one point I wanted to roller blade professionally. I used to roller blade a lot of ramps and that, so I wanted to go pro with that for a bit, or ski or something…
So you were very lucky really!
I know – very, very lucky!
You said you played MacBeth at school, do you remember playing any other parts when you were younger?
Yeah we had a lot of plays when we were at school. I remember one year I was in high competition with my best mate coz he always thought he could do better than me. And I remember my teacher had written a play called The Poetry Machine and I played this bloke with a cockney accent. I was like seven or something and everyone thought it was great.