Nicholas Hoult cries easily and laughs at nothing – except Pete Davidson

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Nicholas Hoult is easy to make cry. Making him laugh, on the other hand, is apparently a different matter.“I’m very sentimental,” the British actor tells The National. “It’s very…

Nicholas Hoult is easy to make cry. Making him laugh, on the other hand, is apparently a different matter.

“I’m very sentimental,” the British actor tells The National. “It’s very easy to make me cry.”

Hoult has been on screen since he was a child, growing from the wide-eyed youngster in About a Boy into one of Hollywood’s most versatile leading men. He’s played a doomed war boy in Mad Max: Fury Road, a scheming politician in The Favourite and Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor, moving between blockbuster spectacle, period drama and comedy along the way.

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“I’ve noticed something,” Hoult continues. “Particularly with reading scripts or doing scenes: it’s normally the simpler the dialogue or the simpler the sentiment being expressed, the more deeply it affects me, and the more that I am likely to cry.”

His How to Rob a Bank co-star Anna Sawai is more easily amused. She’s also quick to admit that, like Hoult, she has no trouble shedding a tear.

“Anything about life, death, love will make me cry,” she says. “I’m always thinking about that stuff.”

There is at least one exception to Hoult’s rule about laughing: Pete Davidson. The comedian and actor is part of the bank-robbing crew in How to Rob a Bank, and took his co-stars to see him perform stand-up while they were filming.

“We went to see two of his stand-up shows, and so we laughed a lot at him because he’s a great comic,” Hoult says.

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