The action-drama series Pennyworth is set in a grimmer version of Swinging Sixties Britain. The setting is fictional, but it often feels too real for actor Jack Bannon, who plays the title character.

"We are in a time of political divide. I've never known the world to be so divided," says the 29-year-old English actor of the real world, currently gripped by a pandemic and protests over police brutality.