Finn Cole and Florence Pugh set tongues wagging on Tuesday when they were spotted slipping out of The Perfect Couple afterparty together.
Then pair had made a low-key arrival to the premiere itself before partying the night away at The Hoxton and leaving in the same car.
Yet while they largely managed to avoid detection, Finn has built up quite the fanbase in recent years.
It seemed obvious he would go into acting, however, as he is the youngest brother of Gangs of London and Black Mirror star Joe Cole.
He found fame working alongside his sibling, joining him in the cast of Peaky Blinders.
Florence Pugh and Finn Cole sparked romance rumours on Tuesday night as they slipped out of The Perfect Couple premiere afterparty together
Finn made his acting debut in 2014 when he was cast as Michael Gray in BBC One smash hit drama Peaky Blinders
Joe boasts 924,000 Instagram followers and has landed several famous roles
Joe revealed that he wanted to help his younger brother kickstart his career so helped him get the role by speaking to show bosses.
He told Clash in 2014: ‘Finn always wanted to find his own path – he was very keen and showed a real energy and passion for acting.
‘He just kept nagging me. I batted him off, actually, but eventually I said, “I’ll talk to [the show’s producers] if you read the lines and you figure out the character and you learn the accent and you learn the scenes. You do the preparation, and I’ll film you doing it.”
‘He put in the work and, credit to him, he worked very hard at it and he got his just desserts.’
Finn added that he had extra stress around the time of the audition because he was still in school and didn’t have the funds to go to auditions.
He explained: ‘He got the script through and we were chatting about it and reading them together and there was a character in there that was really cool and that I really liked.
‘I never really had the intention of auditioning for it, I was still at college at the time doing my A levels and I had to concentrate on them.
‘Then the following week after I had read it, I was in college and I was really bored and I just thought “you know what? I’m going to give Joe a call and see what he says”.
‘If there’s any way of me auditioning for it that would be absolutely great and he said go up to Birmingham, they’re doing open auditions.
‘I was looking for train tickets up to Birmingham and I had no money so I couldn’t do it, and then he called me back and said why don’t we just tape an audition and I’ll send it to my agent?’
Finn used his famous connections to get into the acting business, with brother Joe Cole (right) asking Peaky Blinder bosses to get his sibling an audition for the show
He was cast alongside Margot Robbie in Depression-era romance Dreamland, with the pair filming a steamy naked smooch
The following year saw more TV gigs for Finn as he appeared as Eric Birling in Helen Edmundson’s BBC One adaptation of An Inspector Calls (pictured with Miranda Richardson, Ken Stott and Chloe Pirrie)
Finn earned a new legion of fans when he took on the role of Joshua ‘J’ Cody in the American drama series Animal Kingdom from 2016 to 2022
Thankfully it worked and Finn made his debut in 2014 when he was cast as Michael Gray – the cousin of Joe’s character John Shelby.
The following year saw more TV gigs for Finn as he appeared as Eric Birling in Helen Edmundson’s BBC One adaptation of An Inspector Calls and also had a guest appearance in the detective drama series Lewis.
Finn earned a new legion of fans when he took on the role of Joshua ‘J’ Cody in the American drama series Animal Kingdom from 2016 to 2022.
Film roles also soon beckoned, with Joe landing roles in 2018 comedy horror Slaughterhouse Rulez and 2020 drama Young Men.
He was cast alongside Margot Robbie in Dreamland, with the pair filming a steamy naked smooch.
A scene from the Amazon Prime film shows the pair stripping naked for the intimate scenes, clearly struggling to hide their growing feelings for one another.
He also bagged a role in 2023 psychological thriller Netflix film Locked In.
Red Speedos is the star’s stage debut, having started his acting career in television.
Florence also ‘liked’ every Instagram post of Finn’s this year and shared her delight when it was revealed he had landed a role in the theatre production.
She commented on the post: ‘Oh my gosh this is unbelievably exciting!’ and added she’d be bringing her beloved grandmother, sharing: ‘Granny Pat wants to come.. #obvi’.
Despite boasting 924,000 Instagram followers and having landed famous roles, Finn revealed in 2021 that he hasn’t felt too different after finding fame.
He told Gentleman’s Journal: ‘Although there has been the odd time I’ve been sitting in a restaurant and someone’s been looking at me for a very long period of time and I wonder if [they might recognise me]. I never say anything.’
Florence has also ‘liked’ every Instagram post of Finn’s this year and shared her delight when it was revealed he had landed a role in the theatre production of Red Speedo
It’s not the first time Florence and Finn have enjoyed an outing – having partied at Glastonbury Festival together
