PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID REISS
STYLIST HOLLY MACNAGHTEN

From clanking down the Yellow Brick Road to cooking in Yorkshire, guarding half-human, half-vampire hybrids, and flexing his guns in a robot revolution, Max Parker’s career so far has been delightfully… unpredictable.

“I think the reason I got into acting as a kid was because I had so much energy, and my parents just wanted to give me an outlet,” Max tells Gay Times. “What I wanted to be always changed: I wanted to be a vet, a doctor, a policeman. Being an actor, you get to do all those things, but only for a short while, and then move on to something else.”