Daniel Huttlestone
Huttlestone came out of the London stage as a boy and landed two of the best child roles of the 2010s musical film revival. He was Gavroche in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, the street kid singing on top of a barricade, and two years later Jack in Into the Woods, climbing the beanstalk in a Sondheim adaptation stuffed with much bigger names. Both parts brought Young Artist Award nominations.
Both also need the same thing, a boy who can sing live on camera without curdling into a stage-school performance, and he could. The Les Miserables shoot recorded its vocals on set rather than to playback, which is unforgiving on a child, and he holds his own in it.
The listed credits get quieter after that: the teenage Brian Fawcett in The Lost City of Z, and Shay Baker in London Town, a coming-of-age film about a boy discovering punk. Four screen credits makes a short page, and a short page is a fair description of a career that mostly happened on stage and while he was young.
Movies (4)
Where to start with Daniel Huttlestone
Two musicals dominate this page and Les Misérables should be taken first, specifically for the sequences he is handed, where a small boy has to hold the frame against a wall of famous adults and manages it. The film is not subtle, but he is the least mannered thing in it.
Into the Woods is the better singing showcase, since Jack gets proper songs and a proper arc, and the Rob Marshall version sounds cleaner than Hooper's. The Lost City of Z is the best film of the four by a distance, though his role is supporting. London Town is the small British one, worth it if you like films about teenagers finding a band.