Asa Butterfield may be best known for playing nerdy teenager Otis in Sex Education, but now he is swapping the classroom for the stage as he makes his theatre debut in one-man show Second Best
The 27-year-old said he was done playing a teenager and “wanted to do something totally different”.
He says he perused various theatre scripts and Second Best caught his eye.
“It’s the perfect story that explores how you move past that sliding doors moment,” he told the BBC.
The show tells the story of a former child actor, Martin, who narrowly missed out on playing Harry Potter when he was younger.
The drama follows Martin as he navigates fatherhood and imagines how his life would have turned out had he got the role.
Butterfield says the play, based on the novel by David Foenkinos and written by Barney Norris, is “funny, touching and relatable as everyone will have thought about the what-ifs at some point in their life”….