As if that wasn't enough, Dickinson has now made the move behind the camera, writing and directing the new drama Urchin – which arrives in UK cinemas today. The compassionate film stars Frank Dillane as a homeless young man named Mike, who is attempting to rebuild his life following a short stint in prison – all while desperately trying to keep his previous substance addiction issues at bay.
"[It] came from my own sort of proximity to people that were dealing with cyclical behaviour – rather than just addiction and homelessness," he explains. "It was a lot about trauma for me and how we navigate things when we've been through something quite extreme.
The plan had originally been for Mike's story to be one half of a dual narrative, but Dickinson eventually decided that it worked better to put the entire focus on this one character – exploring "someone [who is a] similar age to me, kind of battling against themselves and testing the audience's level of tolerance for someone who's making difficult decisions and isn't always likeable".
"Just trying to build a full human picture of someone going through that, really," he says. "Then homelessness is the backdrop, rather than the main point for me."
Throughout its runtime, we see several surrealist flourishes, and this was something he was partly emboldened to do after his experiences working with a number of skilled filmmakers as an actor.
"And I think I've always been interested in that as a viewer as well. So maybe it just feels like an extension of what I'm interested in and what I like to watch and how I like to experience stories. I think there's a certain naivety that gets you through it when you make it for the first time – like you don't have rules or expectations in place, so you kind of just go for it!"
Still, leaning into surrealism did also lead to some of the more challenging aspects of the filmmaking process for Dickinson. "Trying to get your vision across to a group of people is hard," he says. "It's like a really strange thing to have to try and convey something that is so lucid and un-concrete."
View oEmbed on the source website" I mean, being there with Triangle was overwhelming and special in so many ways," he recalls. "And then we went back the next year to look for financing for this film and had to do a lot of meetings where I was trying to convince people of the film.
So where does Dickinson go from here? Well if you believe some internet rumours, he's one of Amazon's top choices to take on the long-vacant 007 gig – with his name frequently mentioned on lists of those most likely to take on the mantle in Denis Villeneuve's upcoming entry in the iconic spy franchise.
There is one iconic Brit that Dickinson will be playing, however. It was announced earlier this year that he is starring as none other than John Lennon in Sam Mendes's ambitious quartet of films about the Beatles – with Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan playing the other members of the Fab Four.
“ It's been amazing, man," he says. "It's such a unique experience to play someone of that calibre. I mean, it's intimidating, but it’s enriching. It's an opportunity to delve into something incredibly complex and challenging, which I've loved. I feel really lucky to go to work every day and get to attempt to dig into who and what that is."
The choice to make four different films – one from the perspective of each Beatle – has been met with criticism from some quarters, but for Dickinson this only adds to the appeal.
Interestingly, Dickinson did also give himself a small acting role in Urchin, playing Mike's somewhat unreliable friend Nathan. But this hadn't always been his plan: an actor had been lined up, only to drop out for personal reasons and – given he'd already been running lines and had a built-in dynamic with Dillane – he ended up taking the role.
" No, I don't think so," he says when asked about the possibility. "I admire people that can, I admire, the Fassbinders, Cassavetes, Bradley Cooper even. I just don't know if I've got it in me to do that."
Of course, he'll have to balance any writing and directing efforts with an acting career that only seems likely to rise further. And on that note, there's plenty of filmmakers he's hoping he'll manage to collaborate with going forwards.
If he can build on the promise shown with Urchin, it probably won't be too long until other actors are adding Dickinson's name to their own lists.
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