Age: 36
male
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990), is an English actor. He is known for playing Sam in Love Actually (2003), Simon in Nanny McPhee (2005), Ferb in Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013–2014), Newt in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018), and Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Brodie-Sangster also grew in popularity for starring in critically acclaimed cult films such as Death of a Superhero (2011), Bright Star (2009), and as Paul McCartney in Nowhere Boy (2009). He played Jake Murray in the series Accused (2010–2012). He also had a cameo as an officer of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), a role as Whitey Winn in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and voiced John Tracy in Thunderbirds Are Go (2015–2020).
A visceral exploration of desire and disconnection, *Flesh* follows a middle-aged man navigating the murky landscape of casual encounters and digital intimacy. Trapped between loneliness and compulsion, he pursues fleeting physical connections through dating apps and chance meetings, each encounter revealing the hollow core beneath surface attraction. As he moves through encounters with various women—each with their own vulnerabilities and secrets—he confronts uncomfortable truths about himself: his inability to genuinely connect, his self-deception, and the emotional toll of treating intimacy as transaction. The narrative strips away pretense to expose the raw, often uncomfortable reality of modern desire. Szalay crafts a darkly honest portrait of a man searching for meaning in meaningless encounters, where physical closeness only deepens his isolation. A haunting meditation on human connection in an age of unprecedented access and profound emptiness.
