The Sex Education star on his new Christmas movie, filming in jacuzzis, and the joy of fake snow
took him to a global audience. He is a reliable anchor on the show, which treats horny teens learning to tame their sexuality with the deft and awe that Marvel might deploy when depicting an ordinary person exhibiting superpowers. As Otis Milburn, the son of a renowned sex therapist, Butterfield’s presence tempers the lust and melts the knots of high-school angst, turning the show into something gently affecting.
“It's all quite chaotic,” he says of the film. “As is often the case, if you spend the holidays with a family that's not your own, it's quite overwhelming and awkward, too, because they have their own traditions that can appear quite weird.” Butterfield’s own Christmases are spent on safer territory, visiting his mum’s family in Yorkshire, or his dad’s in Southampton. This Christmas, he’d bought most of his presents by the end of November. He sounds so good at it. But when he took an online quiz to find out his ‘love language’ , “it was split between ‘words of affirmation’, ‘physical touch’, and ‘quality time’,” he says.
While Hayley tries defrosting the family dynamic at James’ dad’s house, James must let his guard down around Hayley’s jolly Northern family, which includes a mud-mask and hot tub spa session with his girlfriend’s mum, aunt, and grandma. Filming it was not relaxing. “When you're in a jacuzzi beyond an hour, it sort of stops getting enjoyable,” he says. “We filmed for about three or four hours, and you're like, ‘now I'm just a cold and I look like a raisin’.
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