“A Day in the Life” Featuring THE MONKEY Star Theo James for VMAN Magazine

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VMAN introduces the arrival of VMAN54 with “A Day in the Life” issue starring Theo James as one of the six cover stars. Photographed by Alvaro Beamud Cortés and styled by Davey Sutton in Dolce&Gabbana SS25 collection, the actor and star of the upcoming Stephen King film THE MONKEY, sits down with VMAN’s Digital Director Mathias Rosenzweig to discuss his trajectory into acting, his foray from music to film to production, and what a day in his life looks like.

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ON HIS MOTIVATION TO JOIN THE ACTING WORLD:
“In all honesty, as a teenager, the acting world was the best place to chat with girls. I remember doing plays at university and thinking, ‘This is incredibly satisfying,’” he says. “If there’s any way for someone to do this as a job, they’d be pretty lucky.”

ON THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE:
“My fantasy was, naively, to be in a band. In all honesty, I think I tried to the point where, perhaps, if it was going to happen, it would have happened. But what I loved about it—and this is also what I like about theater—is that once you’re in front of people, once you’re live, you have complete control of the medium. With a play, of course, you do rehearsals and you’re reading someone else’s words. But with music, it’s your own words. Once you’re on stage, the choices are yours.”

ON HIS BUMPY START TO THE ACTING WORLD:
“My brother is a huge cinephile, so we were always watching films and making bad ones ourselves as kids. I got an agent and started auditioning, but I remember my first television audition. It was a steep learning curve. I was shouting in the face of the casting directors as if it were a stage performance. They were…perturbed, shall we say.”

ON HIS NEWFOUND LOVE FOR PRODUCING:
“Producing has been one of the most important and helpful things I’ve done for my work as an actor,” he says. “You understand the process behind the scenes. It’s invaluable because it gives you experience navigating tricky situations—complex shoots, complex personalities. And going back to auditions and failure, you realize it’s not personal.”

VMAN 54 hits global newsstands beginning February 21st, 2025.

Photography: Alvaro Beamud Cortés
Fashion: Davey Sutton
Creative Director/Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Gan
Interview: Mathias Rosenzweig
Editor: Kevin Ponce
Grooming: Nadia Altinbas using Oribe & Dolce & Gabbana Beauty

[Photo Credit: Alvaro Beamud Cortés, Courtesy of VMAN Magazine]