Fiennes Tiffin looks toward future roles with the intention of intertwining an audience’s memory of an era, perhaps preserving a poignant place in history. When asked about what project he would want his mother, director Martha Fiennes, to direct him in, he excitedly responds, “definitely not something like After… I think I’d have to talk to her about it. I know she was in the process of writing a spy concept at one point, and I haven’t done a spy thing yet, and I would absolutely love to!”
Amid the pandemic, Fiennes Tiffin nostalgically wished for indulging in conversations with the cast and crew over buffet style catering, perhaps socializing when not filming out amongst the people and places of Bulgaria. Shortly after the After franchise resumed filming, it was made to reinforce its COVID-19 bubble––something many productions are faced with at present. Despite the melancholic global situation, Fiennes Tiffin beams with optimism, and shares of his personal hopes for the future: “a bit more settled, my stuff not all over the place. I’m in my room and I still have two open suitcases that I haven’t managed to put away yet because I don’t have anywhere to put them. The next chapter of my life, I hope to find my feet a little bit more. I think After was a bit more of a head down, go-go-go, and now I’m lucky to be on the other side of that.”
Fiennes Tiffin carries the enthusiasm of a good friend that one might stumble upon in a college classroom, talking about the occasional NTS radio show and the not-so-foreseeable future, quite the stretch from people’s potential projections of what they imagine a “heartthrob” to be like. “If we’re talking ten years,” he concludes, “I do think we can fit a bit of Safdie brothers-produced films, but I don’t think it takes ten years to unpack a suitcase and find a new place, does it?”