He made his name playing Ian Curtis then found himself in
Disney films with
Angelina Jolie, but has his current turn as Marie Curie’s husband really taught him how to make a bomb?
Science wasn’t Sam Riley’s thing at school. Instead, he stared out of the window dreaming of becoming an
Actor or a rock star. But for his latest role – as Pierre Curie alongside Rosamund Pike’s Marie in the biopic Radioactive – Riley read some textbooks. And during the shoot, a professor taught them how to use the Curies’ 19th-century lab equipment so they looked authentic.
So could he make a bomb? “Probably, if I looked online,” he says.