Louis Partridge's Mouth Acting Masterclass

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Louis Partridge takes on a buttoned-up role in the new Netflix drama ‘House of Guinness’ as he played an heir to the Guinness fortune. He explained from the red carpet how it’s a far cry from one of his break-out roles as Sid Vicious in the 2022 series ‘Pistol.’ Louis, joined at the London Premiere by his co-stars Anthony Boyle and James Norton, discusses his new found appreciation for Guinness and how it’s changed his pub-going experience.    Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, ‘House of Guinness’ explores an epic story inspired by one of Europe's most famous and enduring dynasties - the Guinness Family. It launches on Netflix on Thursday 25th September 2025. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00He was throwing things away, he was snarling, and I didn't have it, I was really stressed out.

00:04You know, I may not be Irish, but I'm in a blooming show called House of Guinness.

00:10Yes, I play Edward Guinness, who's the youngest son of the Guinness family,

00:15and the brewery gets passed down to him and his brother to run.

00:18His brother doesn't want to run it, I really want to run it.

00:20I am obsessed with it, I live and breathe the brewery, and I want to be in the world,

00:24and I want to grow it, and I'm very ambitious, and I'm constantly pulled down to earth

00:28by my brother, who keeps messing things up, and I'm very frustrated at him the whole show.

00:33Can I just say, sir, you have range, because the last time I spoke to you was for Pistol,

00:37where you were Sid Vicious.

00:39To go from that to this is a very different tone, I guess, essentially, as well.

00:43How do you enter the world of being a Guinness Air?

00:47Wow, that's mad, that was a long, old time ago.

00:52Honestly, I think a costume has a lot to do with it.

00:55First of all, accent also plays into it, and when you're learning the accent,

00:59you learn a mouth posture, essentially, which plays into your physicality.

01:04Similarly, when I was playing Sid Vicious in Pistol, it's completely different.

01:08He was throwing things away, he was snarling, and that all feeds into, kind of,

01:11subconsciously, the way you stand and inhabit your body.

01:14Throw the clothes on there, and it really changes things.

01:16So I was wearing a stiff collar, I was wearing a suit a bit like this,

01:19and big coats and hats, and it was all proper, and you just had to stand up straight

01:22and be quite, yeah, just proper.

01:26So it does a lot of the work for you, is what I'm trying to say, the clothes.

01:29That was a masterclass in mouth acting that I just saw.

01:31Thank you very much for that education.

01:33Obviously, you said it's like calling it the mouth and the clothes to get into your character,

01:37but when you are working with an accent, do you have, like, a phrase to get you into it,

01:40or can you just kind of pick it up and go with it these days?

01:42Yeah, usually it is helpful to have a phrase.

01:44I don't think I had a phrase for this one.

01:46This accent, because the Sid Vicious accent, took me a long, old time.

01:51I really struggled with it, really, really.

01:53Up until the shooting, we were shooting, I didn't have it.

01:55I was really stressed out.

01:57This one was a smooth ride, and I loved it, and I didn't need to try too hard

02:02or spend too much time figuring it out, partly because I was surrounded by a lot of people

02:06who live and come from Dublin, so I think I had my ear in a bit more.

02:09Tell me about, like, your Guinness habits pre and post this project.

02:14Are you now a convert, or were you previously sold on already?

02:17I was a big Guinness fan before, but now I have a sense of pride when it comes to Guinness,

02:22which wasn't there, and I feel like I'm on the inside of the joke

02:25as someone who can say something about it, you know?

02:28I may not be Irish, but I'm in a blooming show called House of Guinness.

02:31And you go into pubs now and be like, oh, that's a good Guinness.

02:33That's a bad Guinness.

02:34Oh, yeah, all the time, and they were serving one here.

02:36It's not the best.

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