To coin a new phrase, the devil gets all the best parts. There is certainly some truth in this as far as Jamie Campbell Bower is concerned. And it gets you the girls, too. After all, when he played Gellert Grindelwald (the world's second-most wicked wizard) in the last of the Harry Potter films, Deathly Hallows Part 2 - to be released in July - the 22-year-old ended up getting engaged to Ginny Weasley or, rather, actress Bonnie Wright.
The female attention wasn't quite so welcome when he was filming Breaking Dawn, the last instalment of The Twilight Saga, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "I received this box from a fan," he recalls. "It contained a very explicit note about what she wanted me to do to her, a dog collar and some nipple clamps. Strangely, it also contained cheese, which was much more appreciated."
Campbell Bower has the looks that make him a natural to play a vampire alongside Michael Sheen. "It was great fun hamming it up. We weren't playing real people, so we could be really over the top and people have to believe it. Also, you don't have to be the heart-throb if you're the baddie - you can do what you want."
He was still at school at Bedales in Hampshire when he got his first film role in Sweeney Todd. "It was surreal. I'd be coming back to school in the evening and asking people how their day was. They'd say maths was s***, while I'd be saying that I'd spent the day in a boat with Johnny Depp."
He will be seen in his first starring role, as King Arthur in Camelot alongside Eva Green, which will air later this year on Channel 4. Early reports from America are glowing in their praise of Campbell Bower.
So maybe being the goodie isn't so bad, after all.
Originally published in the June 2011 issue of British GQ.
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