Frank Dillane wants to make it clear that he opens his own doors. “Tom Cruise jumps out of all his [own] planes, I open all my own doors,” he tells Empire with a laugh from a park in London. This disclaimer comes after a few injuries Dillane has accumulated over recent years have been discussed, and he wants to make plain his career is not all as intense and debilitating as it sounds.

First there was the back injury he got while playing an enigmatic highwayman in Disney+ series Renegade Nell . Then for his starring role in Harris Dickinson ’s upcoming directorial debut Urchin — in which Dillane plays a recovering addict attempting to find his place in society — he busted his shoulder. The war wound was the result of adopting a perpetually tense, hunched-over physicality whil

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