Join Esquire on Thursday 10 September at 7pm at Dray Walk Gallery, The Truman Brewery (Dray Walk, E1 6QL) for an intimate in conversation with actor and presenter David Harewood, in partnership with Swedish electric car brand, Polestar.

The evening will begin with drinks and canapés courtesy of Oranj around one of the first public viewings of the eagerly anticipated Polestar 5 electric Grand Tourer, before moving into an intimate live in-conversation between David Harewood and Esquire UK Editor-in-Chief Teo van de Broeke. Together, they will explore The Art of Performance through the lens of one of Britain’s most compelling actors.

Across the discussion, David will reflect on what it takes to sustain excellence across both stage and screen, offering a rare glimpse into the discipline and craft behind his work. Drawing on his career and upcoming projects, the conversation will also broaden into themes of creativity, storytelling, and the demands of maintaining a long-standing career at the highest level.

SCHEDULE:

7:00pm – Guests arrive, drinks and canapés courtesy of Oranj

7:30pm – Panel discussion begins

8:00pm – Q&A session

8:15pm – Q&A concludes, drinks continue

9:00pm – Event ends

*Subject to change

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

DAVID HAREWOOD

SAG Awards nominee and British actor David Harewood OBE is best known for playing David Estes in Homeland opposite Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, and J’onn J’onzz in The CW’s Supergirl alongside Melissa Benoist.

He will next lead Channel 4 drama Pierre as Pierre Jeffreys, a sharp and charismatic West London duty solicitor drawn into a chilling web of institutional corruption. He will also appear on the big screen in Zero AD: Bethlehem as Mystic and has recently joined the cast of the upcoming second series of Sky and HBO legal drama War, opposite Marisa Tomei and Kelly Macdonald. Created by Hijack and Lupin co-creator George Kay, the series follows two rival London law firms as they go head-to-head in a series of high-stakes, headline-grabbing cases.

He is also currently filming the noir-tinged thriller Hyde from filmmakers Graham and Parker Phillips, alongside Nathalie Emmanuel and Holt McCallany, in which he plays Robert Malloy, a lieutenant trying to keep an under-resourced department together while pursuing a serial killer and pulling lead detective Grimes (McCallany) back from the edge.

David recently completed a critically acclaimed West End run in Shakespeare’s Othello, starring in the title role opposite Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald, with the production set for international cinema release.

His recent television credits include Paramount+’s Happy Face with Dennis Quaid and The Agency alongside Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere, and Jeffrey Wright. Other notable credits include BBC’s The Night Manager, Robin Hood, Sherwood, ABC’s Selfie, Amazon Prime’s Ten Percent (as himself), The Man in the High Castle, and Doctor Who. His Supergirl role also featured in crossover episodes of Arrow, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.

On stage, he made history as the first Black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre in 1997 and has since starred in Best of Enemies (Young Vic / Noël Coward Theatre), The Mountaintop, Welcome to Thebes, Henry IV, and His Dark Materials, among many others.

In 2024, he founded production company Section52Films following his BBC documentaries Psychosis and Me, Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour?, and David Harewood on Blackface. He published his memoir Maybe I Don’t Belong Here in 2021.

That same year, he was appointed President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, succeeding Sir Kenneth Branagh, and was awarded an OBE for services to drama, charity, and mental health advocacy.

TEO VAN DEN BROEKE

Teo van den Broeke joined Esquire UK as Editor-in-Chief in April 2025. Teo is an author and award-winning journalist and podcaster. He began his career in journalism in 2010, serving as Style Director for Esquire UK and British GQ before joining Soho House as Global Editorial Director in 2022, where he helped develop and execute the brand’s worldwide content strategy. His memoir, The Closet, was published by HarperCollins in 2023.

ABOUT POLESTAR

Polestar (Nasdaq: PSNY) is the Swedish electric performance car brand with a focus on uncompromised design and innovation, and the ambition to accelerate the change towards a sustainable future. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, its cars are available in 31 markets globally across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Polestar has four models in its line-up: Polestar 2, Polestar 3, Polestar 4, and Polestar 5. Planned models include the Polestar 4 new variant (to be introduced in the last quarter of 2026), Polestar 2 successor (to be launched early in 2027), Polestar 7 compact SUV (to be introduced in 2028) and the Polestar 6 roadster. With its vehicles currently manufactured on two continents, North America and Asia, Polestar plans to diversify its manufacturing footprint further, with product

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