OSCAR-winner Daniel Kaluuya swapped the glittering lights of Hollywood for his favourite barber shop this week as he promoted his film about a dystopian future without social housing.

Mr Kaluuya, who grew up on the Camelot House estate in Camden Town and went to St Aloysius in Highgate, spent Monday afternoon in Modernage salon in Archway.

The Get Out star, who was helped into acting at the Weekend Arts College in Belsize Park, was promoting his latest film and directorial debut, The Kitchen.

It tells the story of a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated – and his old barber even managed to bag a few lines in the flick.

Nev Watson, the owner of the shop who took it over from his mother more than 25 years ago, said: “It’s really good that you get people who come through here and do well, and they come back and say, ‘It started from here, the idea came from here’ – it’s really good, and hopefully it’ll inspire more young people who are running around the place.”

He added: “I got a call from someone from Netflix saying they were representing Daniel, asking if it was possible for me to come down.

“I didn’t think much of it, and I thought, ‘Alright, cool, I’ll just be sitting in a chair, and just chat crap with the actors between when they’re doing their jobs’.

“But when you get there, it’s not like that, they expect a little bit more.

“I was expecting just to be sitting around, having a little cameo. But the next minute they were like, Mr Watson’s shop in