The refreshingly private actor dishes on the show, his favorite albums, and his hobbies. 

Let me tell you about <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/valentines-day-playlist-music-david-h-holmes">David H. Holmes</a>. If his name doesn&rsquo;t ring a bell, his face just might. Holmes is one of the stars in <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/streaming-services-netflix-disney-hbo-quibi-2020">Hulu</a>&rsquo;s new show, High Fidelity, alongside <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/zoe-kravitz-spring-issue-2019">Zo&euml;&nbsp;Kravitz</a>, who plays the lead role of Rob, a record store owner, and Da&rsquo;Vine Joy Randolph, who plays Cherise. Holmes plays Simon, who is Rob&rsquo;s coworker, best friend, and ex-boyfriend all wrapped into one. With a relationship like that, one can imagine the interesting situations bound to unfold.

The show, a gender-flipped adaptation&nbsp;of the 2000 movie of the same name based on Nick Hornby&rsquo;s novel, follows the life of Rob as she revisits her top five heartbreaks. On its Valentine&#39;s Day release and beyond, the show&#39;s complex premise seems sure to bring newfound interest to all the stars&#39; performances, including that of Holmes, who despite being private about his life (you won&#39;t find him on Instagram or any social platform) has steadily built an impressive acting resume with roles on the likes of Mindhunter&nbsp;and Law and Order: SVU. In honor of the show&rsquo;s release on Valentine&#39;s Day, Holmes talks to L&rsquo;Officiel USA about making High Fidelity, working odd jobs, and why he stays off social media.

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Let&rsquo;s talk about High Fidelity&mdash;what was your favorite part about making the show?

When you&#39;ve been at it for 17 years working odd jobs, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/travel-living/pretty-rickys-lower-east-side-cocktail-bar-new-york">bar</a> jobs, doing little things, when you finally get like a big role where you&#39;re on set all the time, making a living, doing it, I mean...that&#39;s kind of incredible. Every actor will know that feeling. That was a pretty damn good part of it.

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What was it like working with that incredible group of people&mdash;Zo&euml;&nbsp;Kravitz, Da&rsquo;Vine Joy Randolph, and Jake Lacy?

Oh my God. Well, working with Zo&euml; and Da&#39;Vine, it was incredible. They&#39;re very easy to work with, incredibly friendly. I just felt like they were just friends from the outset; nothing felt forced, nothing felt like, &#39;Oh, we have to be friendly because in the script it says we&#39;re friendly.&#39; Everything just flowed really naturally. I didn&#39;t have any scenes with Jake, but we got along really well, just in the off-time. Like we all still hang out here and there. They&#39;re very nice people.

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In the show, your character is very music-obsessed/knowledgeable. Is that at all the same in real life?

Not to the extent of the character. He knows things about, you know, Brazilian pop <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/music">music</a> from the &#39;60s and who produced what record and at what time. I don&#39;t know any of that necessarily. The music that I like, I really like. I appreciate things I really like and I certainly need music all the time, but I&#39;m not as knowledgeable as the character at all.

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What are some of your favorite songs or artists?

Good question. I can&#39;t really break it down to songs, but I can do <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/chelsea-cutler-new-album-how-to-be-human">albums</a>. Sandinista by The Clash is one of my favorite albums, The Boatman&#39;s Call by Nick Cave. It&#39;s hard to put a Dylan album on it cause I like so many of them, but, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks. It&#39;s really hard after that. Desires is one of my favorite albums by him. The self-titled Minor Threat&nbsp;album is probably one of the best punk rock albums out there. How Could Hell Be Any Worse by Bad Religion. It&#39;s tough because there&#39;s just so many, but basically [I mostly stick to] blues, country, punk rock, and soul.

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If you could work with any actor/actress/director on a project, who would it be?

I&#39;m really excited about the work that [Robert] Eggers is doing right now with The Lighthouse, and everything he&#39;s done. I love the Safdie brothers as far as the new people coming up. Obviously, I&#39;ve been a huge fan of guys like Paul Thomas Anderson, Lars von Trier, and David Fincher over the years. As far as directors, I would love to work with those guys.

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You don&rsquo;t have any social media presence. Why is that?&nbsp;

I just never liked it. I never gravitated to it. It never seemed like something that would interest me. And the little that I have seen it or been on it or understood of it kind of confirms that each time. Less is more as far as I&#39;m concerned. When you have a platform to kind of put out every single one of your thoughts, ideas, and feelings, it&#39;s fine and it&#39;s beautiful, and the people that enjoy that and need that, it works very well for them. But, as far as I&#39;m concerned, I really enjoy anonymity and I enjoy being in full control of my public persona, which means I don&#39;t have to put anything out. I&#39;m already in a profession where if I&#39;m doing it right, I&#39;ll be in front of a lot of people, and I prefer to keep that there. My private life is best kept private and in that case, the more you know about me, then the more you&#39;re kind of analyzing that, watching a <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/film-tv">movie or a TV show</a> or whatever it may be. But if you don&#39;t know anything about me, then you can just kind of let the role or whatever you&#39;re watching speak for itself.&nbsp;I think that&#39;s where I want to live.

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What are some of your hobbies?

I love camping. I love doing <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/loewe-menswear-2019">outdoor</a> things. I try and camp as much as possible. I&#39;m a big boxing fan; I used to actually train and I should probably get back into that a little bit just to get back in shape. I like reading, going to concerts, loud music, and things like that.

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Since the show comes out on Friday, I have to ask, do you have any interesting Valentine&#39;s Day plans?

No, not really. You know, what I&#39;m going to be doing is sitting&nbsp;down and watching all of High Fidelity. That&#39;s what everybody should be doing on Valentine&#39;s Day, my God.

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If there&#39;s one thing that you would want people to know about you, what would it be?

I don&#39;t want people to know anything about me. I can&#39;t really imagine what I would want people to know about me that&#39;s not already kind of out there for their delectation to already see. I&#39;m a nice guy. How about that?

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What are you most excited about for the future?

Oh, God. More work. I was a bartender before this show, and so I would like to keep working in my chosen profession, whether it be season two of this show or whatever project comes along that I&#39;m really interested in. I just want to keep working.

'High Fidelity' Star David H. Holmes Wants His Work to Speak for Itself

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