Someone, Please, Get ‘1917’ Star George MacKay on Instagram
You know the feeling you get when you’re about to embark on a new celeb crush? It starts with seeing them in a great movie or TV show. Then, you go home and do a quick social media sweep and hit ’em with the follow. Pics of them come up in your timeline and you get a little excited. And then you casually find yourself searching their name on YouTube and falling into a hole of Jimmy Fallon appearances and interviews.
That’s how I felt when I came out of 1917. The film stars George MacKay, who I had literally never heard of until seeing that movie. After watching him pretend to be a WWI soldier for two hours, I was intrigued and very much ready to move on to phase two of the above steps. And he’s been making the rounds this entire awards season because the film has been nominated for literally everything. Internet, give me all the George content, please! But there’s one major obstacle getting in my way.
This man has literally no public social media. I have searched high and low, far and wide, and I cannot find even so much as an old, unused Twitter account. He might have personal profiles that are super locked down, but that doesn’t help me. The thing that takes you from maybe having a celeb crush to definitely having a full-on boner for someone you’ve never met is the ever-important social media stalk.
It’s not hard to be a hot person. Like, anyone who came out of someone’s womb has at least a slight chance of being attractive. What’s difficult, though, is having a good personality. The best actors, musicians, etc. to fangirl over are the ones who are real people off the screen. I wanna see funny tweets about mundane things like waiting in an airport security line! I want to double-tap on that humorous Instagram caption on a picture of you and your other objectively hot famous friend. I wanna chuckle at that sassy reply to the troll in your comments because it showed me you can actually make a joke.
That brings me back to George. Right now, the only info I can get is the stuff I find on Google. That’s weird. I mean, sure, it’s nice to know he is 27, was one of the Lost Boys in that 2003 live-action Peter Pan, and is a perfectly adequate 6 feet tall, but I don’t wanna look at my celeb crush’s Wikipedia page.
It’s way more creepy than the occasional glance at their Instagram Story when it happens to pop up at the top of the app and you just so happen to find out he’s vacationing in St. Bart’s or some other rich-people place. When I’m watching him present an award at the Oscars, entertainment’s biggest night, I need more than an IMDb search can give me! As of right now, he is simply a hot British man in a very good movie. I’m not mad about it, per se. I just think he could be my next Timothée Chalamet, and I’m going to need more from him for that to happen!!
This is my plea to whoever is reading this (but mostly George’s publicists): Please, get this guy on Instagram as soon as humanly possible. I and all the other people out there who are just as thirsty want—nay, NEED—to know very unimportant things, like what dog breed is his personal favorite. It’s vitally important. Thank you for listening.
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