Leo Woodall stays grounded after ‘One Day,’ even as more hearts are fluttering

“I haven’t seen this one specifically,” Leo Woodall says as a sheepish smile — the one 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 — stretches across his face. “I was just very intrigued and anxious to know what people thought and how they were responding to it,” Leo Woodall says of the launch of his “One Day.” He needn’t have worried. I would start improvising in the world of ‘Peaky Blinders.’” He graduated in 2019 from Arts Educational School, where he studied acting, before landing minor roles in such TV shows as “Vampire Academy” and “Citadel.” He was filming “The White Lotus” when he watched the film version of “One Day” as prep work for his audition: “I didn’t know how it was gonna end,” he says. And it gets broken more than once.” Woodall humbly scoffs when asked what he’s learned about what goes into playing a leading man — “Oh, I still don’t know.