Thomas Doherty on ‘Inform Me Lies’ and Why He Identifies with His Character Leo

It’s not each day that your character punching out the present’s primary male lead will get you stopped on the road in congratulations, however that’s the character of Hulu’s “Inform Me Lies.” The collection, which emerged as a breakaway hit with season one in 2022, includes a forged of school college students who make problematic decisions one after the following, in a squirming however can’t cease watching method. 

The present follows a bunch of school pals, primarily centered on Lucy and her relationship with a manipulative upperclassman, Stephen. The primary season follows the various dramas of their relationship, and in season two Thomas Doherty is launched as Leo, a brand new love curiosity for Lucy who has simply returned from finding out overseas.  

Because the episodes rolled out, Doherty discovered himself getting stopped on the streets of New York with growing frequency. 

“Everybody’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m so blissful that you simply punched Stephen.’ As if it was truly me,” Doherty says. “I’m like ‘You’re welcome guys, I obtained you.’”

Doherty, the 29-year-old Edinburgh native now primarily based in New York, was a fan of the present’s first season, regardless of pondering Lucy, performed by Grace Van Patten, was truly “the principle woman from ‘Divergent.’” 

“I used to be like, oh, Shailene Woodley is doing a brand new Hulu present, that’s so sick. So I watched it and I used to be like, that’s not Shailene Woodley,” he says. “However I assumed it was wonderful. I cherished the writing, I cherished the cinematography, the way in which that it was shot, and there was such an incredible ensemble of youthful actors.”

“I noticed quite a lot of my youthful self in Leo,” Doherty says of his character. “I believe everybody goes via that faculty section: you need to attempt to be a greater individual and do the precise factor, however you could have all these different exterior forces and peer pressures. I actually loved the truth that he was attempting to enhance himself as a person and as a human. I assumed that was actually cool. However we’re all human. Typically we simply should punch somebody’s face.”

Previous to “Inform Me Lies,” Doherty was finest recognized for his position as Max within the reboot of “Gossip Woman,” one other present about sexy privileged youth creating drama. 

“Perhaps I’ve simply been kind,” Doherty says with fun of the comparability. “I imply, it’s nearly like an precise development, isn’t it? ‘Inform Me Lies’ appears much more rooted in actuality and actually, ‘Gossip Woman’ was highschool, ‘Inform Me Lies’ is faculty, possibly I’ll play a personality doing a f–king grasp’s diploma, proper? It’s good enjoyable to play that.”

Doherty has cherished appearing for so long as he can bear in mind, and describes himself as “very expressive” as a baby. 

“My mother mentioned that I wouldn’t cease shifting in her abdomen when she was pregnant with me,” he says. 

He studied theater for 3 years at The MGA Academy of Performing Arts in Edinburgh earlier than venturing into the world of tv and movie.

“I adore it, and what I like about it adjustments and it grows and goes in several instructions, so that you’re by no means settled in it,” he says. “It’s at all times altering and morphing into one thing else, which I like.”

Along with his subsequent position he would like to take a stab at one thing new. 

“I believe I’m undoubtedly prepared for the following problem, be it on a much bigger scale or in a extra intimate means of the craft, if that is smart,” Doherty says. “I assume [I want to] stretch my appearing muscle — or flex my appearing muscle? I’ll say stretch. We’ll discover out if I can flex it.”