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25 April 2021

‘As actors, there are certain things we internalise and accept as the status quo’
(Nathan Johnson)

Nikesh Patel is one of the only people in Britain who can say he went

clubbing in 2020. Well, sort of. During lockdown last autumn, he was in
Cargo in Shoreditch, filming the meet-cute between his and Rose Matafeo’s
characters in her new millennial comedy, Starstruck. “It was a massive party
scene and we had members of the public rocking up, trying to get in,” he