How does a polite, soft-spoken, rugby-loving Welshman like Tom Ellis land the role of the Prince of Darkness? “It’s an old joke: All evil people in movies are British,” he says.
A star in England who made his name playing TV doctors and detectives, Ellis is now taking a much more sinister turn on Fox’s new series Lucifer. Inspired by the Neil Gaiman graphic novel The Sandman, the show follows—you guessed it—the devil, who, bored with hell, retires to L.A. and becomes a nightlife-loving consultant for the LAPD.
With his permanent 5 o’clock shadow, Ellis didn’t need to change much about his look to play the part. “My goal was to make him human,” he says. “I’m going for ‘lovable rogue’—I think of him as Mick Jagger and Noël Coward’s love child, with some Oscar Wilde thrown in.”
THE CLOTHES
A traditional trench coat can make a man look like two kids trying to sneak into an R-rated movie. The Tommy Hilfiger THFlex Rafael Nadal Edition version, though, trades buckles and billow for a more modern look that’s also stretchy and waterproof.
“It’s always been my vision to reimagine the classics,” says Hilfiger. Nice job.
