Page 544 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21

14 May 2021

Nikesh is happy to be a heartthrob

Nikesh Patel enjoyed playing a global movie star in the new must-watch BBC3 comedy Starstruck.
Especially when his character, Tom Kapoor, got to behave badly.

There's a touch of 'wish fulfilment', Patel confessed, in a scene where Kapoor storms out of an
interview at a Press junket. Throwing a strop 'in the safety of a scripted comedy' was fun.

Starstruck was written by Rose Matafeo and Alice Snedden — and Matafeo herself plays Jessie, a
cinema manager who wakes up from a New Year's Eve hangover to find she's hooked up with a
huge movie star (Patel).

Nikesh Patel enjoyed playing a global movie star in the new must-watch BBC3 comedy Starstruck

Starstruck was written by Rose Matafeo (right) and Alice Snedden — and Matafeo herself plays Jessie, a
cinema manager who wakes up from a New Year's Eve hangover to find she's hooked up with a huge
movie star (Patel, left)