Himesh Patel on his move to Hollywood: ‘You’re not meant to do nine years on EastEnders and then get a Danny Boyle movie’

The British actor who spent nearly a decade playing geeky Tamwar Masood on the BBC soap has since starred in ‘Tenet’, ‘Don’t Look Up’ and the Beatles-themed romcom ‘Yesterday’. He speaks to Kevin E G Perry about his unexpected film career, his new Netflix drama, and his experience of being ‘mildly famous’