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Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born April 25, 1988) is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and by eight, he was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as South Downs in 2012, The York Realist in 2018, and Cock in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's Othello in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's King Lear in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of The Last Five Years in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of Company, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019. On screen, Bailey starred in the action-adventure series Leonardo (2011–2012) and the musical-comedy Groove High (2012–2013) before becoming known for his roles in the crime drama Broadchurch (2013–2015), the satire W1A (2014–2017), and the comedy Crashing (2016). He gained international recognition for his starring role in the Regency romance series Bridgerton (2020–present). Bailey's role in the romantic drama miniseries Fellow Travelers (2023) won him a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He has since played Fiyero in the two-part musical fantasy film Wicked (2024–25). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Bailey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
It's based on the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1926 and describes the soldiers' feelings after returning home from WWI. The protagonist and narrator is an American Jacob Barnes. This is a story about a group of young soldiers living in France, they drink a lot, sleep with girls a lot and even bet who will have sex with more girls, but in reality, nothing is as it seems and they aren't happy in life. Jacob strives for a full and carefree life spent with friends at parties, restaurants. But, he is marred by a war injury that renders him impotent and thus unable to fulfill his feelings for Lady Brett Ashley, whom he loves and presumably she too. However, they know that the relationship is impossible cause she would have to cheat on him, which she doesn't want. They deal on her dating, she confides in him about her love problems. The men decide to travel to Spain for the Fiesta of San Fermín in Pamplona iwhich s known for the Running of the Bulls. They think there is no reason to be alive anymore for them so they don't care if they will die there. Jacob is a big fan of Bull fighting. Brett Is there too and she is there with her Fianceé Mike, but she falls in love with the young bullfighter Pedro Romero. They are together but after a while their relationship doesn't last and she calls Jake. In the final scene in Taxi in Madrid Brett tells Jake she thinks they could have had a wonderful time together. Jake replies, “Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?
