PLL: The Perfectionists Star Graeme Thomas King Teases New Role

Hey, what's up guys? We are hanging out in the Young Hollywood studio with Graham Thomas King.

Hey, how's it going? Well said. You got that. You got there in the end. You got there.

So I'm confused with the bio on your Instagram. It's Gray as in Grey's Anatomy. I was like.

That's the that's the best work at like describe. I've never had to describe it to people until I came to the US and people people ask me all the time. I don't know how to say your name. So I'm like, well, how am I going to describe it? So it's Gray as an Anatomy and an Um as in I don't know what I'm going to say next.

Is that a common name in the UK and then you're like people are like oh, we've never heard this name before.

Not really it's more it's no it's like the way I spell it is the Scottish way so I'm like all my family's Scottish. So Graham Cracker, which is G. R. A. H. A. M. is not my name. I got that all throughout my youth. It's not this not my name. That's the English way. So I'm the Scottish way. Loud and proud. I love it.

Yeah, thank you. Has anyone ever told you you look like a young James Dean?

Are you serious? I thought you were going to say Eddie Redmayne. That's what everyone that's what everyone says. So I was like a young Eddie Redmayne.

No, me too. I love James Dean because he's all over your Instagram.

I know I love James Dean. I love but then I thought you know what? They kind of have a similar look. You got the hair. You got the you know I know. My my model myself him on a little you know a little tiny bit. He is a legend. Yeah I do love Jimmy Dean. It's a good person to model after. Yeah I'd love to play him in like a biopic one day. That'd be amazing.

You wrote that you would love to play him some day.

I'd love to do that. You know. So thank you. That's nice. That's a really nice compliment. No one's ever said that to me before. That's really sweet. I like you.

I thought you'd like that. Yeah. You had that one lined up like looked at the Instagram pictures everywhere like oh. See one of the reasons why you wanted to get into acting?

Probably yeah like I I I watched a lot of I love watching like old films like I've seen all of James Dean's like East of Eden, you know Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. Giant's my favorite. I just I don't know. I just love those old films like and all the Brando ones and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is my favorite film. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman. It's absolutely beautiful. So sexy.

So I heard that you were discovered on a number 11 London bus.

Oh my gosh, you've done your research. Yeah. There was this this girl who's I was in the top deck of this bus going to the library. She just she asked me if I was an actor and I was like no no I'm far above that. You know I'm going to work I'm going to work in finance. Um and she yeah she just said well, I'm doing a short film. Do you want to audition for it? And I was I I just gave her my email and then next thing I knew I was auditioning for this short film and I have to shout her out because I mean she was the first person that really was like you should try this and um Beatrice if she's watching she's probably still in London but

Now you get to go to all the fun Hollywood parties.

I do, yeah.

And I have to ask who did you spill wine on? At the Young Hollywood team party. This is not serious. Who did you spill wine on?

Oh where'd you get this information from?

You put it on your own Instagram.

Oh yeah I did. Oh god, sorry I forgot I forgot about that. Um No one told me.

No you don't have to share if you don't want to. I thought that was very humble that you wrote that on your own Instagram.

I did because I felt dreadful. It was at um It was at a Teen Vogue event and I'm dreadful with like knowing who people like who they are and it was but it was Ann Winters who's on 13 Reasons Why and she had this like gorgeous it was like it was bordering on white and she was drinking red wine. And I just like classically like you know you just lift her elbow up and she was there and it just went back. Oh I was like. And her boyfriend was there as well and like I thought it was going to get in a fight and I was like. You got this cute accent. I was like oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Like I've just arrived, you know I'm I'm new here.

With this new show The Perfectionists I bet she's going to watch it and then see you on there and think oh my god he spilled red wine on me.

Probably, yeah. People recognize me on social media because it's such like a social media frenzied show. It's absolutely mad. I I'm still getting my head around how big it is. Like the fans and just the you know the show. It was such a successful show for such a long time which is you know rare I suppose for something to run for seven series or whatever it was, you know, it's pretty pretty crazy. So

Yeah, congratulations. I mean.

Thank you.

It's a big show and you're playing a scientist.

I play a scientist. Yeah. I know I can't talk that much about what he does. I'm under the strictest strictest confidence to um not say what he does. But yes, he's a scientist. You're correct. Um that's that's it. Yeah, that's it.

Before we end this segment let's give the camera our best James Dean impression.

Oh my god. Oh no no no you want to do um disaster artist. Why Lisa? Why? Why Lisa? You're tearing me apart.

This is the man. This is why he got cast on this new show because he's great. This is awesome. I just like the shoes. Thank you so much for coming in.

Yeah, it's so fun.