A brilliant young mathematician becomes an enemy of the deep state in a paranoid new potboiler streaming on Apple TV+.

But the run-up to The White Lotus in 2022 was not a clear upward curve, but more of a wobbly line. In 2019, he appeared in one episode of Holby City, as most budding British actors do, playing the part of a boy whose friend had fallen off a wall (he later reveals that the pair had taken drugs).