Hero Fiennes Tiffin Looks Back On Five Years Of The After Franchise

Hero Fiennes Tiffin may be starring in Guy Ritchie’s latest World War II blockbuster The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, but he’ll never forget where he came from.

This April marks five years since the debut of the first After film that kick started the romantic drama franchise that put him on the map. In the five film series, he plays Hardin Scott, a brooding rebel with a dark past who is only able to open up after meeting Tessa Young (Josephine Langford). Their love story is vast yet complicated and changes his life forever — just as this franchise did for Tiffin.

“There's no better way to word it. I will always be eternally grateful to the After fans for giving me the opportunity to have a platform and springboard my career to where it is. I really will. That's a real nice moment for you to tell me that it's been five years to the day,” Tiffin told me for Pop Culture Planet on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare red carpet. “As I say, everything I do, the After fans and the After franchise, I'll never forget it. It's really really so dear to my heart. So, yeah, eternally grateful.”

While he’s closed the chapter on this story, it leaves room for him to grow in his career. In The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, he plays young Irishman Henry Hayes who is taken under the wing of Gus March-Phillips (Henry Cavill) as part of a special cover mission that ultimately helps in taking down the Nazi regime. “Any moment where I'm confidently walking through Nazis with a sten gun,” he said of his favorite moment in the film. “As a teenage boy, that's a dream come true being in a Guy Ritchie movie, with a gun, racking up numbers.”

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is playing in theaters. Get more of our coverage from the New York premiere, below.