‘I’ve paled up for roles – like when I played Voldemort’: Frank Dillane on zombies, burnout and new film Urchin

<p>He got so weary of Fear the Walking Dead that he fled to Berlin for two years. Now he’s is back in a riveting role as a street kid robber and jailbird. The young star talks nepo babies – and playing posh white</p><p>When some enterprising director gets around to making Pete Doherty: The Movie, Frank Dillane won’t need to audition. With his black leather jacket, bed-head and baby face, this could be the youthful Libertines frontman seated before me next to a potted plant in an east London cafe. Unlike the young Doherty, however, the actor’s drug of choice is a flat white. And he isn’t hell-bent on sabotaging his career. Not any more.</p><p>After playing the haunted, drug-addicted Nick Clark in four seasons of the zombie TV spin-off <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/fear-the-walking-dead">Fear the Walking Dead</a>, Dillane, now 34, fled to Berlin for two years and turned his back on fame. A glance at some of the video interviews he did to promote the show is enough to explain why: he looks at best fidgety, at worst bored and resentful.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/23/voldemort-frank-dillane-zombies-fear-the-walking-dead-urchin">Continue reading...</a>