Corey Mylchreest as Jamie in My Oxford Year. Chris Baker/Netflix Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment [This story contains spoilers for Netflix's My Oxford Year.] When portraying King George in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Corey Mylchreest left audiences in love and heartbroken after his character's emotional arc. Now the actor is set to once again make the audience swoon and possibly cry in Netflix's My Oxford Year. In the film, directed by Iain Morris and based on Julia Wheelan's 2018 novel of the same name, Mylchreest stars as Jamie, an Oxford professor who falls in love with American student Anna (played by Sofia Carson). What begins as a fun fling evolves as the two grow a strong bond built on poetry and literature, before profoundly altering each other's lives and subverting each other's expectations. However, Jamie reveals that he has been secretly battling cancer, the same illness that he lost his brother from, and has made the decision to no longer continue treatment much to his father's protests. Related Stories Movies Sofia Carson Is Ready to Offer a "Classic Timeless Love Story" With 'My Oxford Year' TV Netflix's New Releases Coming in August 2025 The choice was one that was complicated for Mylchreest. "I don't know what I would do. I really tried to meditate on that for a very long time, but it takes you to quite a dark place. It's so complicated, but I support him in his decision," the actor tells The Hollywood Reporter. "If you've watched your brother want to let their life end, and undergoes this treatment that really just prolongs and worsens the pain, I think if you've seen that for long enough... think you're one step further to accepting your fate than you would be if you hadn't," he adds. In Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Mylchreest's King George was depicted with a mental illness. Though the series never explicitly stated a diagnosis, it was referred to as "madness." Now having portrayed another character struggling with an illness Mylchreest reflects, "No one is their illness. It's not a characteristic, it's a circumstance." Of portraying two roles in which his characters endure illnesses Mylchreest says, "We know that it isn't who they are and you just have to do the same work that you would do anywhere else, which is just figure out who your man is and then do as much research as possible about the illness or whatever there is... Just do as much research as possible about what it is, and then try and work out how the person that you are beginning to know and understand, how they would react to that." In a conversation with THR, Mylchreest reflects on filming at Oxford, Jamie's complicated relationship with his father, that Coldplay karaoke scene and what he envisions could've been for his character. What was it about this story that interested you and made you want to be a part of bringing it to life? I guess it's the character of Jamie. He's so multifaceted. He's so three-dimensional. [There are] lots of conflicting things within him, lots of amazing relationships in that film [including] with his parents, with his brother, with the wonderful Anna, yeah, there was just so much to do. And it's such a lovely story as well. Obviously working with Sofia [Carson] was a big pull, as was working with Iain. How familiar were you already with Oxford? I know bits of Oxford, and I've been up and down before to there. It's such a gorgeous city. It's full of history, and the architecture is really lovely and it's really beautiful. It's this really lovely dichotomy between the fact that all of these buildings are so old and they've been there for so long, but they've always been for young people. There's always been this vibrant, youthful energy and purpose to Oxford that is contained within these ancient buildings which is so, so lovely. It was so lovely to film it there as well, because it feels like a big part of the film is the city itself and also the college. It was such a great thing that we got to do it there. We filmed a lot at Magdalen college and on the streets of Oxford. Anna and Jamie form a connection through their love of literature and poetry. Can you talk about poetry and literature being this foundation for them and how it helped them see each other in a way that others wouldn't? I guess in Jamie and Anna, you have two characters who are sort of restricted from their truth, dreams, desires and emotions through things around them. Jamie's family are very old English and England has a culture of suppression of whatever you're truly feeling. But Jamie is so full of feeling and love and everything under the sun and obviously loves poetry to pieces. But it is through his poetry that he's able to further understand himself and the world and express himself as well. The amount of times that he quotes s