On the set of Faster

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Directed by George Tillman, who also directed Soul Food, Notorious and Men of Honor - a diverse filmography, for sure - Faster features a slick and deadly assassin otherwise known as Killer. It's a familiar character portrayed by an unfamiliar face - up-and-coming English actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen. The young, twenty-three year old thespian talked candidly about the backstory that he and Tillman created for the character.

"George asked me where he was from and we worked backwards and forwards with quite a lot of ideas. Fundamentally, all of his problems stem from when he was a child," laughed Jackson-Cohen. "I'm hired to come in and I suddenly find myself in this chaos, but all three of us - me, Dwayne, Billy Bob - we've all got our own demons and the whole situation makes us deal with them. There's nothing sane or normal about this man... The Killer sold a software company and made a huge amount of money. He's bi-polar; he's never been very stable. And there's this kind of thrill, this need to find something that's going to excite him, and he finds it in this."

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On Set Pictures - Going The Distance 20/08/09

Here are some candids of Oliver from the set of 'Going The Distance' with Drew Barrymore. Oliver said of one of his scenes "I had to do my scene with Drew on the first day, full-on snogging and more - I wasn't naked, I wore these flesh coloured underpants. I don't think my mother should see it though. It's very raunchy."

First movie poster!

Congrats to Oliver for getting his first movie poster credit for his role in Faster. This is the teaser poster for Faster that was seen at ShoWest:

Westside Magazine Interview

Oliver Jackson Cohen is enjoying 2008. You can see it his eyes, you can see it in his smile and you can see it in the way his hands fly around when he speaks, as if he's conducting his own orchestra. And there's good reason for all this enthusiasm: the 21-year-old Shepherd's Bush actor is currently appearing in the BBC Sunday evening drama Lark Rise to Candleford - and he can't quite believe it's really happening.
'It's weird!' he says of watching the programme on TV. 'When the credits came on for the first time I got so over-excited. All my family and friends were round and it was "Wah! I'm on telly!" Then you sit there and blush. It's you, and you remember doing it, but - I don't know, it's just the oddest thing...'

Close-up: Oliver Jackson Cohen, actor

If life as a TV heart-throb doesn't work out, he can go back to washing vases

By Esther Walker

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Looking at Oliver Jackson-Cohen, one could be forgiven for thinking he has had it easy. Tall, dark and handsome, the 21-year-old is the chief heart-throb in the new BBC1 drama Lark Rise to Candleford, in which he stars alongside Julia Sawalha and Dawn French. Throw in a famous mother the British fashion designer Betty Jackson and his life must surely have been a piece of cake.

Not quite. While other budding drama brats were bundled off to Sylvia Young, Jackson-Cohen sweated away at the academic hothouse of the Lyce Franais Charles de Gaulle in London. Seeking a dramatic outlet, he attended the Youngblood Theatre Company at weekends, and at 14 landed a small part in Hollyoaks. After school and a gap year, he started a degree in French literature lasting "for about two weeks. I hated it." He soon got a job washing vases for a florist to keep him going between auditions. "It wasn't great but when you're that broke you'll do anything."

In a taxi with… Oliver Jackson-Cohen

By Maureen Paton

Meet the actor with blond ambition - he'd love to work with Johansson, Pfeiffer, Béart...

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Trust that glamorous British dress designer Betty Jackson to produce such a handsome son as Oliver Jackson-Cohen.


As a child, he became Kate Moss’s mascot after following her around backstage at his mother’s shows (‘I just fell in love with her; she’s so beautiful and funny’). At 16, he was a sandwich-fetcher for Madonna when he worked as a runner on the Royal Variety Show (‘She was lovely, but so protected by security that unfortunately I didn’t get much interaction’).
And after being inspired to take up acting by watching his mum’s best friend Jennifer Saunders on the Absolutely Fabulous set, 21-year-old Oliver became a star himself as the ardent young gamekeeper Philip in BBC1’s Lark Rise to Candleford – the cast of which was led by Jennifer’s Ab Fab co-star Julia Sawalha and comedy partner Dawn French.
‘As soon as I got on the set, Dawn said, “Where are our biscuits and coffee, young Ollie?”’ he grins. For this is one gilded youth who won’t throw a petulant strop, even though his Lark Rise performance has led to interest from Hollywood.

Welcome

Hello there,

This blog will hopefully chart the rise of Oliver Jackson-Cohen, a budding actor on the verge of hitting the big time, we've been fans of his since 2008 when he starred in 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. We are hoping that this will become the 1st stop on every OJC fans discovery of this fine actor!
Hopefully soon we'll get a few more photos up and some more information about upcoming projects. At the moment we're still trying to find our feet with the blog!

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