‘Paradise’ Star Thomas Doherty Teases Season 3
When you see Thomas Doherty on screen, it’s easy to become starstruck with his piercing blue eyes, charismatic personality and magnetic presence. He may appear as this unattainable heartthrob, but you may be surprised to learn you have more in common with the 31-year-old Scottish actor than you realize. He’s really just a fanboy at heart. He was going through all the emotions during his latest project, taking on the role of Link in season two of Hulu’s post-apocalyptic political thriller Paradise. It was not only a new challenge for him as an actor, but he also got to cross a few things off his bucket list, like working with some acting greats. “They always say, ‘Never meet your idols,’ but she’s near and dear to my heart,” Doherty says of his co-star Shailene Woodley, before continuing his praise of the show’s mainstays, Sterling K. Brown and Julianne Nicholson. But before Doherty got fully lost in all his enthusiastic compliments of his co-stars while chatting with The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom on a Monday morning in late April, he quickly caught himself. “It’s annoying because you watch interviews and you watch people in shows and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re like a family.’ I’m like, ‘Fucking bullshit. No way. You guys don’t even like each other,’” he says. But now he understands where those people are …









