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Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for playing James Cook in the British television series Skins (2009–2010, 2013). He is also known for his roles in This Is England (2006), the slasher film Eden Lake (2008), the television dramas Dive (2010) and United (2011), and the Netflix Wild West miniseries Godless (2017), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014), garnering nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. He subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in the war film Unbroken (2014) and received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He has since starred in the thriller Money Monster (2016), the biographical drama Trial by Fire (2018), the BBC miniseries The North Water (2021), the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022–2025), the Amy Winehouse biographical film Back to Black (2024) and the period horror film Sinners (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack O'Connell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
It's based on the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1926 and describes the soldiers' feelings after returning home from WWI. The protagonist and narrator is an American Jacob Barnes. This is a story about a group of young soldiers living in France, they drink a lot, sleep with girls a lot and even bet who will have sex with more girls, but in reality, nothing is as it seems and they aren't happy in life. Jacob strives for a full and carefree life spent with friends at parties, restaurants. But, he is marred by a war injury that renders him impotent and thus unable to fulfill his feelings for Lady Brett Ashley, whom he loves and presumably she too. However, they know that the relationship is impossible cause she would have to cheat on him, which she doesn't want. They deal on her dating, she confides in him about her love problems. The men decide to travel to Spain for the Fiesta of San Fermín in Pamplona iwhich s known for the Running of the Bulls. They think there is no reason to be alive anymore for them so they don't care if they will die there. Jacob is a big fan of Bull fighting. Brett Is there too and she is there with her Fianceé Mike, but she falls in love with the young bullfighter Pedro Romero. They are together but after a while their relationship doesn't last and she calls Jake. In the final scene in Taxi in Madrid Brett tells Jake she thinks they could have had a wonderful time together. Jake replies, “Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?
