The Jamestown and Raised By Wolves actor, who this year joins the cast of HBO and Sky's House Of The Dragon, didn't much care for the worlds of TV and film where he has since made his name. "As a kid, I didn't really like TV," he recalls. "Cartoons were pretty cool, but this was when they were at a set time, so you couldn't watch them all the time!" Due to his dyslexia, reading didn't come naturally either. For a young Salim, who goes by Abu, it was games that proved an escape.