Jack O’Connell covers the new issue of Hunger Magazine. I don’t care for the cover shot, but I like the second photo, the one with Jack in what looks like a black cashmere robe/coat. I think Jack is sexy, in that “bad boy” sort of way. He seems like trouble, but most of it would be good trouble. Fun trouble. Sexy trouble. Although… from the way he talks in this interview, it sounds like he’s trying to come across like a “nice guy.” Jack is currently promoting Money Monster, which doesn’t even come out until May 13. There’s some talk of screening the film at Cannes. It will be Jack with George Clooney, Julia Roberts and director Jodie Foster, so maybe Cannes will want to have a non-competition screening for the film. Here are some highlights from Jack’s Hunger interview:

What he does when he’s unemployed: “It’s about keeping active and doing things, getting up in the morning even if you’ve got a day off. Anything’s better than sitting on your a*** waiting for your next job. I love cinema, reading, going to see plays. It widens your perspective a little, increases your knowledge. When I am unemployed or waiting for a job I still have to consider myself at work. I help my mum if she needs stuff doing at home or in the garden, go round my nana’s and do the things she isn’t in a position to do any more, stuff like that.”

His late father was a huge influence: “There were certain factors I wouldn’t want to adopt, but his sense of humour and the way he was with people, I really look up to him. I’m lucky that I know a lot of my idols personally — people from home. I guess I get to take the positivity from their attitudes and put it into characters I play.”

How Angelina Jolie changed his career/life: “She really fought my corner, for a director to spot something like that and resist the guidance or bosses in order to hand me an opportunity, that’s enormous and I’ll never forget that”.

[From Hunger Magazine via The Evening Standard]

See, he’s not a “bad boy,” he’s just a humble bloke who goes to his mom’s house and his grandmother’s house to help out with the chores. That actually does make me like him a lot. I know I side-eye a lot of mama’s boys around here, but there’s nothing so humbling and authentic than imagining an actor/movie star doing chores around his grandmother’s house or helping his mother in the garden. As for his consistent love for Angelina… that seems real as well. Too bad Unbroken was just… not great.

Photos courtesy of Rankin/Hunger Magazine.