It’s a speciality of Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s to take a limited part and to play it richly, bringing his characters front and centre. In 2014, Lena Dunham brought the New York-born actor, then in his mid-30s, into her hit dramedy Girls, for what was supposed to be a brief arc as a short-term love interest, the excruciatingly pretentious actor and musician Desi. Typically, Moss-Bachrach found Desi’s depth as well as his absurdities, and it wasn’t long before he was upped to a regular…

