When Jonny first read the script for Showtime's Penny Dreadful, he was in the middle of filming Stonewall and wasn't sure he wanted to play another prostitute — until he learned that producer John Logan was attached to the project. He then asked a friend to help him film his audition for Angelique on an iPhone in his dressing room.
"I was like, I will stop at nothing until I get this role," he told TheBacklot in June 2015. "So a friend had come from London to visit the set and I told her. I had about a 15-minute break in between setups. I pulled her into my dressing room. Together we pulled out the fridge and I glued my lines for the scene on the fridge. Then I had her hold my iPhone steady and stuff and I filmed it in 15 minutes in my trailer. It was fantastic."
