HighFidelity star thomasadoherty talked to us about his top 5 favorite tracks, his love for Brooklyn, and reimagining the classic film for hulu
Thomas Doherty loves “Kiwi,” by Harry Styles. It’s “sexy” and “so good,” he says, tucked into the back table of a Brooklyn coffee shop. He sings a little of “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” the Roberta Flack version, and shouts out the Rolling Stones’s “Gimme Shelter,” before pausing. Coming up with your all-time, top five favorite songs isn’t easy. He has to think of good ones.
Doherty isn’t one of those heartbreakers, but he makes a play for it as Liam, a buzzy guitarist primed for rock stardom, in part due to the weight of a label behind him but also because he looks like Harry Styles. He is equal parts floppy hair, wider-than-possible grin, and tattoos peeking out from collared shirts. Doherty has a similarly boyish charm: He arrives via scooter to our meeting and is currently cozied up in a sweatshirt with the word “Malibu” emblazoned across the chest.
But for Doherty, who lives in Hollywood with his girlfriend , being part of a show that is a love letter to Brooklyn, bonding with his cast mates and crew members at neighborhood bars, made the project feel special. “It’s just really cool and really creative. But I don’t like the weather,” he adds, with a laugh. He stayed here for nearly two months while filming, and revelled in what was a “constant flow between socializing and work.
The show introduces Liam while he performs a pared-back take on Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love To You” at a bar, which makes Rob question if she prematurely wrote off the slow-dance jam. The parallels in casting weren't lost on Doherty either — in the film adaptation, Cusack's Rob falls in with a cooler-than-cool soul musician, played by Kravitz’s mom, Lisa Bonet. He brushes off any possible comparison before I can bring it up, laughing.
To prepare for the part, Doherty learned to play the guitar, mastering the four songs Liam sings throughout the series. That includes the Boyz II Men throwback, which he says is “weird coming out of a Scottish white boy. I got the script and was like,.” Even so, he wouldn’t pursue work as a musician. “I’ve done musical theater,” he says, pointing simultaneously to his middle school acting roles and the Disney Channel juggernautInstead, he’s focused on what will come after his acting career.
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