The actor talks about growing up without a sense of home, how he went from hairdressing to a leading role – and the joy of filming sex scenes with Parker Sawyers
As a child growing up in an international expat community in Dungun, Malaysia, Henry Golding used to tell his mum off whenever she tried to teach him Malay. Everyone they knew spoke English anyway; why did he have to learn? All he wanted to do was to fit in with his friends. “But then, when I went back as an adult to Malaysia, I was kind of embarrassed that I wasn’t able to speak Malay.”
With a Malaysian mum of Iban ancestry and an English dad, Golding, 33, has spent his whole life navigating two cultures but feeling as if he doesn’t quite fully belong to either one. Being of mixed heritage meant “never quite understanding a sense of home”. Was it Malaysia, where he was born? Or England, where he moved to when he was eight? When, soon after filming Crazy Rich Asians, the romcom blockbuster that would make him an overnight sensation, Golding got the script for Monsoon, he connected straight away with its sensitive exploration of a gay British Vietnamese man’s search for identity.
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