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"    Photo: Getty Images   When we&amp;#039;re first introduced to Detective Kevin Corcoran on BBC America&amp;#039;s first original scripted series, Copper, it&amp;#039;s clear that like the late 19th century New York he inhabits, Corcoran is a state divided among himself. Amid an ambling sea of panhandlers, Civil War vets, and child prostitutes, he (&amp;#039;Copper&amp;#039; when on the job, &amp;#039;Corky&amp;#039; to his brazen band of Irish ex-pats) strives to find a modicum of justice in a city tainted by greed, hypocrisy, and racism. In real life, Tom Weston-Jones is a bit broader, and whole lot sweeter, than you&amp;#039;d expect, with unblinking blue eyes and a butterscotch-thick British accent (even though he spent his formative years in Dubai, where his parents relocated to teach). &amp;quot;My girlfriend calls me &amp;#039;Desert Boy,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; he says of having missed sixteen years of pop culture. &amp;quot;There will be British      references and I&amp;#039;ll go, &amp;#039;I don&amp;#039;t know what that is,&amp;#039; and she&amp;#039;ll go, &amp;#039;Ah, right. Desert Boy.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; A quick laugh and then, just like that, his craggishly handsome features reassume the trademark smirk of the best renegade regulator since The Wire&amp;#039;s McNulty. Copper premieres Sunday, August 19 at 10 pm EST on BBC. Age: 25 Provenance: London; Dubai Relationship Status: In a relationship Hello, Hollywood: A relative unknown stateside, Weston-Jones, who currently lives in London, isn&amp;#039;t quite ready to take his talents to Tinseltown. &amp;quot;Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s definitely a way to go about approaching it. As long as you do that in the right way, things can work out really well for you. I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still down to earth.&amp;quot; Shades of gray: &amp;quot;[The characters in Copper] seemed to have flaws in them, which is what I like in a script. I like when you read something and you feel like there is a human side to every single person. There isn&amp;#039;t an obviously evil character: someone twiddling their mustache or running off with the TNT. Everyone is gray.&amp;quot; Top Chef: &amp;quot;I look cooking!&amp;quot; he says of staying bulked up for the brawny role. &amp;quot;Particularly pad thai.&amp;quot; Move over Mad Men: &amp;quot;I was quite jealous of the other characters. They have so many costume changes, but my character being from Five Points [the destitute downtown neighborhood considered the original American melting pot], I have about three pairs of pants. [Franka Potente&amp;#039;s character] Eva goes through a big change towards episodes three and four. Everyone&amp;#039;s style is finding its footing in the first episode. With Eva, that Steam Punk style becomes very powerful. I think she is going to be a fashion icon!&amp;quot; Dream dates: &amp;quot;Jessica Rabbit!&amp;quot; he jokes before fessing up to crushing on Michelle Williams and Zooey Deschanel. &amp;quot;People wouldn&amp;#039;t call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood,&amp;quot; he says of the latter, &amp;quot;but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive.&amp;quot;   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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