Rizzle Kicks plays the villain for his movie debut

 
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Sian Boyle10 October 2013
The Weekender

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As one half of hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks, Harley Alexander-Sule is known for his clean-cut image. But he is set to shock fans as a gangster villain in his film debut.

Sule stars in Meet The Guvnors, a violent thriller set amid the gangs of south-east London, and says the role is the polar opposite to his public persona. “People see Rizzle Kicks as bubbly and happy so it’s interesting to play a villain,” he said. “It’s great fun to play and I’m very excited for when people see that different side to me.”

The break into film is the latest career success for 21-year-old Sule, who with Jordan Stephens has sold more than a million singles and 600,000 albums in the UK since Rizzle Kicks’ first chart success in 2011. Sule said: “People assumed that with Rizzle Kicks we’d go into comedy or something light-hearted but this role will give people a few shocks. Adam has grown up on an estate, he’s parentless, he has to be a father to his younger brother, and this ruthless upbringing has led to him being a yob, but a calculated one.”

Sule had expressed an interest in acting to his friend, director Gabe Turner, who offered him the part after beginning the script two years previously.

He stars alongside Doug Allen and David Essex. Sule, who with Stephens trained at the Brit School and has a strong background in acting, said: “People presume just because I’m a musician that I can’t make the transition into acting, when really I started out acting and made the transition into music.”

Meet The Guvnors will be released next year.

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