Thomas Brodie-Sangster admits he'd like an 'evil' role as he attempts to escape 'cute' image 

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All grown-up: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, now 25, played Sam in Love Actually Florian Renner

Former child star Thomas Brodie-Sangster says he wants to get away from the “cute kid” image that propelled him to success in the movie Love Actually.

The 25-year-old, best-known for his role as Sam, the sweetly romantic stepson of a widower played by Liam Neeson in the hit 2003 film, said he is now keen to play someone “twisted”.

Brodie-Sangster, who since his breakthrough role has starred in Game of Thrones, Wolf Hall, Nowhere Boy and Thunderbirds Are Go, says in an interview with ES Magazine: “I want to play someone twisted, with ulterior motives. 

“It would be cool to dive into the psychology of that because you have to relate it to you somehow — how do you relate to an evil bastard?” 

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The actor, who lives with his family in Camberwell but is hunting for his own home, said the desire to be the bad guy had been with him since childhood: “I wanted to play the evil kid who looks at you and blood spurts out. I was always the cute kid.”

Now dating My Parents Are Aliens actress Isabella Melling, who was in the year above him at Pimlico School, he admitted returning to his classroom studies after shooting a movie was always difficult.

He said: “You go back to school and everyone goes, ‘Where were you?’ ‘Oh I had to go to Tunisia and make a movie with Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley’ [2007 film The Last Legion]. I wasn’t saying it as a way of showing off — that’s what I was doing — but that is so beyond anything anyone else is doing.”

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Brodie-Sangster also attributes the fact he survived child stardom to “good family and friends”.

He said: “You can see why people [get sucked in], though, it’s hard. You feel like the world revolved around you because everyone says you’re amazing.” 

He admitted that he failed drama at school, adding: “I didn’t like the idea of having to perform in front of my classmates. People expected me to be brilliant.”