Theo James and Kaya Scodelario discuss ‘The Gentlemen’ and keeping up with Guy Ritchie

This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s “The Gentlemen.” Despite having similar careers, Theo James and Kaya Scodelario had never met before being cast in “The Gentlemen,” a Netflix spin-off of Guy Ritchie’s 2019 crime comedy. “It’s quite good to know on Day 1 that you already respect the person without having worked with them yet.” On the show, James plays Eddie Halstead, a member of a British aristocratic family who becomes a duke when his father suddenly dies. “I always feel like I owe it to whatever character I’m playing to make sure they have the best possible story, and I was hyper aware of that being a female in the Guy Ritchie universe,” Kaya Scodelario said. Theo James on Eddie and Susie’s relationship: “We had to establish them being successful as a team to tear them apart and make them enemies.” Did you have all eight scripts when you started shooting?