Breaking Baz: BAFTA Rising Star David Jonsson Receives Laudatory Notes From ‘Conclave’s Edward Berger & ‘Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo As London’s Film Community Parties Into The Early Hours

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Edward Berger, hot from his double-whammy Best Film and Outstanding British Film wins for Conclave at the EE BAFTA Film Awards, wanted to stop by the Searchlight after-party at Soho House’s Greek Street to laud Rising Star winner David Jonsson. “He’s not a show-off,” an impressed Berger tells me after greeting Jonsson. “[It] tells you a lot.

Feet on the ground, incredibly laid back and I wanted to congratulate him,” Berger adds as he watches the Rye Lane and Alien: Romulus actor being feted by a group that included Olivia Homan, his agent at United Talent, and Ellie Norton his publicist at Track Publicity.

Berger notes that he was taken by a comment Jonsson made during his acceptance speech.  “Star? I don’t know, but rising, I guess,” was the Jonsson line that Berger favored.  “I liked his humility,” the filmmaker tells me.

This was an observation that many others echoed. “David’s like an old school movie star, humble and committed to the work. He’s got this old style quality, like Marlon Brando and Sidney Poitier,” Colman Domingo declares when we chat at the Netflix after-party that was hastily relocated to The Twenty Two boutique hotel, a splendrous Edwardian mansion house in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, following the fire that blazed at Netflix’s usual haunt, the Chiltern Firehouse, on Friday.