# @variety on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-26T15:00:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Variety (@Variety) — https://gondola.cc/Variety

## Caption

In the past two years, #JackOConnell has played a vampire in “Sinners” and a cult leader in the “28 Years Later” films. But to take on the role of tabloid editor Larry Lamb, he got even more comfortable with suave, alluring menace.

“His prerogative is very simple,” O’Connell says over Zoom from London. “He’s fixated on sales numbers and whatever it’s going to take to keep that figure rising. He’ll stop at nothing — and that means bending the rules. It was very naughty.”

Netflix’s “Ink,” directed by Danny Boyle and set to open the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2, is as naughty as its central character. Lamb was the real-life editor of The Sun who — hired in 1969 by press baron Rupert Murdoch to help the tabloid break into the U.K. newspaper industry — pioneered such practices as publishing nude pictures of “Page 3 Girls.” The provocative biopic, however, is not intended as a hit piece.

“One of the dangers with doing anything about Rupert Murdoch is that everybody monster-izes him,” says director Danny Boyle, “as though he’s forced everybody to read The Sun! We are all responsible for this.”

Read the full cover story at the link in bio.

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Photographs by Jason Hetherington
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Location: Six Senses London
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