One Day’s Leo Woodall on fans’ reaction to Netflix series: ‘You have to get on with life’
- Leo Woodall reacts to viewers’ intensely emotional response to tear-jerker series, and talks about how Peaky Blinders got him into acting
“I haven’t seen this one specifically,” Leo Woodall says as a sheepish smile stretches across his face – the same smile that has made a fair number of hearts flutter since Netflix dropped its adaptation of the angsty romantic drama One Day, in which he stars.
Woodall is well aware there is a trove of TikTok videos that document viewers’ intensely emotional response to the series, which chronicles the 20-year torturous slow burn of unlikely friends Dex (Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod).
His friends have passed some on, he says.
We look through a TikTok sampler of heartache that has been recorded. He lets out an enthusiastic chuckle as he braces for impact.
There’s a young woman, draped in a green blanket, in various states of complete anguish.
Another video is a close-up shot of a young woman wiping tears from her face while watching an early interaction between Dex and Emma with the caption: “Me 2 days later still crying watching edits.”
