It’s usually a mistake to conflate an actor with the role they’re playing, although in the case of Sam Riley and his character in Islands, Tom, he’s happy to invite the parallels. “I just thought, ‘I know this guy’,” Riley says when we speak ahead of Islands’ UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival. I wasn’t offered a million brilliant lead roles after that.”Sam Riley playing Ian Curtis in Control (2007)Tom in Islands should be filed as one of those elusive, brilliant lead roles. When we first meet Tom, he’s lying face down in the Fuerteventura desert after a night of too much tequila at the local discotheque, and we’re introduced to his ignoble routine. “It’s like the McConaissance, but the Riley version.”The Riley Renaissance, I suggest weakly.