JJ must have spent hours on that sofa being interviewed for lots of journalists; since the Daily Express has now published their video interview with him alongside a short review.

Lots of reviews have appeared over the weekend, and JJ's acting highlighted in a number of them.

Independent of Sunday - 
The best acting here, giving his part a genuine tragic dimension, is from JJ Feild as Heinz, a clueless bacon slicer chosen by Meek as his golden boy: the quintessential one-hit wonder, fated to have baked beans slung at him by audiences amused by his name. He also becomes Meek's lover, letting him wildly bolster his ego, only to lament in the end that he's been taken in by all his promises: just another boy Trilby with a Svengali who can't deliver.

CityLife.co.uk:
O’Neill’s performance as the mercurial Meek is truly outstanding, while JJ Field as Meeks’ fairly hopeless protégé (and love interest) Heinz also impresses.
This terrific British film strikes barely a bum note and comes highly recommended.

Indie London
Throughout, however, Moran draws an incendiary, breathless central performance from the mesmerising Con O’Neill and surrounds him with strong support from the likes of Kevin Spacey (as Major Banks), James Corden, Ralf Little and JJ Feild.

Four stars from View Cardiff.

New Statesman.
Telstar is a riot of colour and vitality, from the rickety funhouse set to which much of the action is confined, to the game cast (yes, even Corden). A devil-may-care Kevin Spacey plunges with abandon into the role of Meek’s benefactor Major Banks, who is barking in both senses of the word. O’Neill, who also played Meek on stage, is bravely unsentimental, and there is impressive work from the men in the producers’s unofficial harem: Sid Mitchell as Patrick Pink, his chirpy gofer; J J Feild, looking like a peroxide Jude Law, as the insecure upstart Heinz Burt; and Tom Burke, one of Britain’s most unpredictable actors, as the composer Geoff Goddard, a delicate flower trampled by Meek.

The News Of The World website has a 4 star review and video interview with JJ, Nick Moran and Conn O'Neill.

Thanks again to Ima, who spotted that the official website now has a few more JJ extras; including wallpapers, screensavers, cast biographies and interviews.

When Nick (Moran) called me and asked to play Heinz I said 'I don't play an instrument and can't sing so I am the wrong person'. He said 'Heinz couldn't sing or play at all, you're perfect'.
To get to know the character I looked at old documentaries and old video footage and saw how he performed. I've watched interviews with him and have been very lucky to talk to a lot of the real people like Jess Conrad and Patrick Pink who gave me their inside take on him.
With these amazing costumes you find the rock n'roll in you immediately! However with the hair I can't look in any mirror at myself, otherwise it puts me off for the day! I've been blow-dried within an inch of my life every morning and peroxided until my hair falls out! 

Rock 'n' roll was in his blood as his father was the guitarist with the 60's London folk group The Springfields, most famous for being the launchpad for celebrated singer Dusty Springfield. In Telstar the role of Heinz took JJ back into the world his father knew as a musician in the 60's and to prepare, JJ took guitar lessons. 

Total Film gave the film 3 stars.

The hits come but as surely as Meek lives in a mess, he’s a mess himself. A pill-gobbling bully, a bad businessman and somewhat loin-driven to boot, he alienates all-comers and haemorrhages cash on Heinz, a gormless wannabe played to preening-pillock perfection by JJ Feild.

There is a great article in today's Sunday Times including an interview with director Nick Moran.

Telstar is superbly cast: alongside O’Neill’s bravura Meek, Kevin Spacey (as Meek’s financier), Pam Ferris (as the doomed landlady, Mrs Shenton) and JJ Feild (as Heinz, the talentless singer Meek loved obsessively) all deliver formidable performances. “I fought for the actors I knew would do it proud. Originally, we were hearing, ‘If you cast Tim Roth as Meek...’ ‘No! It’s Con.’

Time Out reviewed the film at the Rotterdam Film Festival and opinion was mixed it seemed.

Two British films followed, and neither hit the spot. The former was Nick Moran’s likeable adaptation of his own stage play, 'Telstar' (which played at the 2008 London Film Festival), which tells the story of London-based 1960s super-producer, Joe Meek, who pioneered his revolutionary sound in a cramped upstairs flat on the Holloway Road. It’s a peppy, glossy and amusing drama which perfunctorily traces Meek’s rise to fame with the futuristic track ‘Telstar’ and his eventually downfall due to his violently curt manner, brushes with the law (for cottaging) and the millions in royalties which were tied up in legal wrangling. The main problem with the film is Moran’s hundredweight-heavy direction, which repeatedly hammers home all the main themes to the point that it becomes patronising. Also, Con O’Neil’s central performance as the exuberant, scatty Meek doesn’t do enough to endear you to his cause, his nervous, motor-mouthed banter peppered with the odd explosion of rage coming across a little like Rik Mayall in ‘The Young Ones’. Still, the supporting cast are generally strong, there are some great tunes, and Moran is right to think that Meek’s life would make for interesting and cinematic material.

Variety posted a great review of Telstar.

Look and acting styles of the early reels strongly recall Brit movies of the period, from Spacey's stiff-upper-lip ex-army major, through Pam Ferris' gossipy landlady, to J.J. Feild's spot-on impersonation of blond singer Heinz.