YOU, ME & TUSCANY Star Regé-Jean Page for ESQUIRE UK’s April Digital Cover

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YOU, ME & TUSCANY star Regé-Jean Page for ESQUIRE UK’s April digital cover photographed by Christianah Ebenezer and styled by Crystalle Cox.

Page points out later in our conversation, he hasn’t had a Black woman as his love interest since the 2016 television remake of Roots, which is largely set on a plantation, “a fairly unimaginative place to only find Black love interests”. “I think it’s important to normalise your own existence,” Page says. “To normalise seeing two Black leads in a film that is about a universal experience of escaping to find true love in Italy.”

And in a time-honoured tradition for up-and-coming British actors, his name became instantly attached to the Bond franchise (current odds: 14/1). What was it like being on the receiving end of all that?

“It is strange, it’s not normal,” he says. He calls the “intensity” around the Bond question in particular “a little unusual”. Page has clearly thought a lot about this period, and he takes time to think about it now. “How I navigate it is very much about what is useful, what serves me in my job, in being able to deliver what I need to deliver to an audience, and a lot of that is just grounding,” he says. It can be fun to interact with some of that, but it’s clearly a balancing act for Page. “It does get quite loud on the inside, like it was very, very intense, that combination of conversation, and I think I worked quite consciously to be able to navigate that environment with some normalcy for myself.”

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Writer: Henry Wong
Photographer: Christianah Ebenezer
Stylist: Crystalle Cox
Grooming: Carlos Ferraz
Barber: Chris Okonta

[Photo Credit: Christianah Ebenezer for Esquire UK Magazine]

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