 In 2014, Pickering portrayed Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in his younger years, in the fifth and final season of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire".From December 2015 through January 2016, Pickering played Abanazar in "Aladdin" at the Milton Keynes Theatre.In April and May 2016, he was in the European debut of the rock musical "The Toxic Avenger" at the Southwark Playhouse, London.