WICKED and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH Star Jonathan Bailey Covers British GQ Magazine

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WICKED and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH star Jonathan Bailey covers the latest issue of British GQ magazine styled by Tobias Frericks and photographed by James Harvey-Kelly.

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As a child, he was so sure of who he was until other people made him question it. “I really remember knowing everything about myself at a young age,” he says. “I remember at primary school being really clear and then it sort of gets murky as you get older, which is such a shame, especially when it’s to do with sexuality.”

The first time Bailey went to the theatre, he was five years old. At some point during the production of Oliver!, he remembers telling his grandmother sitting next to him, “That’s what I’m going to do.”

Awe was not in short supply on the many sets of Wicked, one of which included a field of nine million tulips planted in Norfolk to create a technicolour field of flowers. The surrealness of the surroundings was not lost on Bailey. “Being slightly off the M1 in Munchkinland, with Ari [that’s Ariana Grande to you and I] singing a beautiful mezzo soprano, and then seeing cars pulling up on the hard shoulder trying to record it,” he says. “And then seeing men in the sky, [which] turned out to be microlights and drones. It was like Independence Day.”

Bailey was filming a scene in which his character – the suspiciously ripped paleontologist Dr Henry Loomis – reaches out to touch one of the prehistoric creatures on the leg, and marvels at the insignificance of humanity. Nothing could take Bailey out of the wonder of that experience. Not the fact that the grass had been painstakingly grown to the right height for this particular scene. Not even the fact the leg was actually a giant blue tube containing a crew member, who was huffing and puffing to keep up with him. “I had to go over and touch the Titanosaur and I can just hear heugh heugh heugh,” Bailey says now, mimicking a timid panting noise. “And still! The magic of Jurassic! The will of the crew! It was a really emotional moment.”

Styling by Tobias Frericks
Grooming by Petra Sellge

[Photo Credit: James Harvey-Kelly for British GQ Magazine]

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