Emilia Jones<\/h2>\nThe Coda breakout on the healing process of filming crime drama Task
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In 2021, When Emilia Jones\u2019s film Coda came out, she says everything went \u2018from zero to 100\u2019. The indie coming-of-age tale, in which the then-19-year-old played the child of deaf adults in a fishing town, won three Oscars, including Best Picture, and secured her a Bafta nomination for her heartfelt performance. \u2018It was so surreal,\u2019 she says of the lockdown success. \u2018Everyone loved the movie. We made history with Troy [Kotsur\u2019s Oscar win]. But the minute you put your phone down, it was like it wasn\u2019t happening.\u2019<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old British actor was able to leverage that acclaim into being \u2018picky\u2019, having already clocked in several years on stage and screen. She\u2019s since been lauded for her nuanced portrayal of Margot in Cat Person, a modern dating horror story, and will next take on a \u2018posh real-estate agent\u2019 in Edgar Wright\u2019s The Running Man, as well as an ambitious
chef in Charlie Harper, a role she trained for at The Ritz in London. \u2018I love playing
characters that are completely different to the parts I\u2019ve just played,\u2019 she says. \u2018I want people to not know it\u2019s me.\u2019<\/p>\n
In HBO\u2019s upcoming crime mini-series Task, Jones is unrecognisable as Maeve, a young woman with tattoos and a mullet, \u2018who\u2019s had a tough upbringing, grown up with a drug gang and has the weight of the world on her shoulders\u2019, she says. It was a cathartic experience for the actor, too: \u2018Maeve came at an important time in my life; I was feeling down, I had been ill and no one knew what was wrong with me, so I felt I needed to play her to feel better.\u2019 The role did just that, and now she\u2019s well on her way to character-actor status.<\/p>\n
Aggy K Adams
<\/h2>\nThe star of The Couple Next Door on the power of scriptwriting
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<\/span><\/div>\nLulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\nAggy K Adams has been making waves ever since her breakthrough in 2019\u2019s Oh, Ramona!, a Romanian coming-of-age film in which she played the eponymous role. Since then, the British-Polish actor has appeared in French comedy series Greek Salad and American sci-fi thriller Altered, and enthralled viewers as alluring Norwegian nurse Mia in the second series of British psychological thriller The Couple Next Door. But the key to the 30-year-old\u2019s success is her refusal to embrace the tropes projected onto her characters, such as Mia. \u2018I understand the world sees her as a seductress, but I don\u2019t focus on that because there\u2019ll be no depth,\u2019 she says. \u2018[As Mia] I\u2019m lonely as hell in a foreign country where people are quite stand-offish, and this is how I explain all of my actions. I don\u2019t mind how people see things, because I know what story I\u2019m telling.\u2019<\/p>\n
Now Adams is doing \u2018a lot of manifesting\u2019. She would love to star in a period piece, \u2018going back and seeing how women had to be in the 1950s\u2019, she explains. \u2018I have so much compassion for those women, so I\u2019d love to explore how that felt.\u2019 She has a strong desire to make the type of films she\u2019d buy tickets for at film festivals, too. \u2018Not every festival movie is good, but it seems like the stories are created from a real place of need,\u2019 she says. \u2018I want to tell incredible stories and portray great characters for great directors.\u2019 And she\u2019s even working on a few personal projects to boot. \u2018The more I act, the more I learn about writing,\u2019 she says. \u2018So I\u2019m developing my own scripts \u2013 it\u2019s my way of empowering myself.\u2019<\/p>\n
Shalom Brune-Franklin<\/h2>\nThe Dune lead swaps sci-fi for a psychological thriller<\/h3>\n![\"shalom](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Z6zuF4y6CNblzrvf1sY.Jg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEyODA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/elle_865\/79ce84830ed886e0a5067f75d6e23ba7\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nLulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\nSince 2016, Shalom Brune-Franklin has been charming audiences around the world with her diverse range of rich, complex characters. Appearing in popular BBC dramas Our Girl and Line of Duty, as well as black comedies such as Baby Reindeer and The Assassin \u2013 the latter for which she teamed up again with The Tourist showrunners Harry and Jack Williams \u2013 she throws herself into every role she gets. \u2018Sometimes you have moments when you read the script and go, ‘If I don\u2019t get that, I should quit because that is perfect,’\u2019 says the British-Australian actor of Mauritian and Thai heritage. \u2018It\u2019s a ridiculous and extreme way to think, but there are those characters that just resonate, where you feel like you can add so much to the script that you have to be a part of it.\u2019<\/p>\n
That was the case for Dune: Prophecy, the TV spin-off of the blockbuster sci-fi franchise, in which the 31-year-old plays Fremen rebel Mikaela. \u2018I loved it, but it was really overwhelming,\u2019 she says of the major following that comes with such huge IP. \u2018Normally, when I finish a show, I just hope people will watch it, and Dune: Prophecy was more terrifying because there\u2019s going to be an audience, so it\u2019s about whether it lives up to the expectation. I remember it being quite exciting but also crippling for everyone on set.\u2019 Up next, Brune-Franklin will star alongside Robin Wright in the psycho-logical thriller series The Girlfriend and opposite Bella Ramsey in George Jaques\u2019 upcoming feature Sunny Dancer, playing a child therapist at a summer camp for young people affected by cancer. \u2018It\u2019s such a beautiful story and was an all-round enriching creative experience,\u2019 she says. \u2018I love doing this job \u2013 I\u2019m living the dream.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ella-Rae Smith<\/h2>\nFrom romance to horror, this British talent can do it all<\/h3>\n![\"ella](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/SfK.H.4VRBaF42SjZ4bAIA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEyODA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/elle_865\/a20315ec94a70669832ea872b8a393a9\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nLulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\nThis year marks a decade in the business for the ebullient Ella-Rae Smith, who began acting aged 17 and has made a captivating impression in various genres across film and TV. On the small screen, the 27-year-old has appeared as effervescent socialite Phoebe in the thriller Clique, gifted enforcer Nix in the action series Into the Badlands and cunning Queen Sareth I in the sci-fi epic Foundation \u2013 all characters she has \u2018poured a bit of myself into\u2019, she says. \u2018I like feeling and experiencing things that would never happen in my daily life.\u2019<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why she signed on to DW Medoff\u2019s Your Host, a cabin-in-the-woods set-up where four friends are tortured by a deranged man. Horror isn\u2019t a genre that Smith is a particular fan of but, despite the film\u2019s script being filled with \u2018violence and gore\u2019, it piqued her curiosity. \u2018Being scared for your life every single moment is not something I feel day to day, so it seemed such an interesting thought experiment to go through that,\u2019 she says. \u2018I got offered
the role and thought,\u201cThis is going to be fun. This is exciting. This is new. This is different.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Cinema is where Smith\u2019s heart lies and, after earning acclaim in 2021\u2019s endearing coming-of-age romance Sweetheart, she hopes to make bigger contributions to the silver screen. \u2018Film is the most accessible form of art,\u2019 she says. \u2018It\u2019s a combination of all the different arts in one piece, and it makes me so happy.\u2019 And when she looks back at her body of work, it\u2019s a beautiful reminder of where she\u2019s been and where she wants to go next with her career.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve supported myself since I was 17, and every project is a time capsule of a certain period of my life,\u2019 Smith says. \u2018I love bringing someone else\u2019s vision to life, but writing gives you the power, some form of creative control, and I\u2019ve been writing for a few years now.\u2019<\/p>\n
Millie Brady<\/h2>\nWith two upcoming films, this model-turned-actor is one to watch<\/h3>\n![\"millie](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/PMatRylX4.WGFMsW6s.nDw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTEyODA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/elle_865\/b795cd1cc87513649a40b453b0f139f1\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nLulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\nMillie Brady is a natural in front of the camera, but it hasn\u2019t always been easy. A former model who began working in the industry as a child, she describes years spent overcoming hang-ups about her body and emotional insecurities. Once she switched gears into acting, however, she \u2018started to learn that I had autonomy over myself\u2019, she says. \u2018I thought that I had to be eloquent, that I had to hide all of my silliness, but I\u2019m at a point in my career where I\u2019m proud of the work I\u2019ve done and proud of the person I am.\u2019<\/p>\n
And so she should be. At 31, the British actor has already built an impressive showcase of character work, from wealthy cellist Eliza with her suitcase full of familial and romantic discontent in the second season of Surface, to her captivating performance in Irish sci-fi thriller Double Blind as Claire, a test subject who must stay awake or die. There was also a small but significant turn in The Queen\u2019s Gambit as French model Cleo. \u2018She\u2019s this really sexually confident French woman,\u2019 she says. \u2018It was the proudest that I\u2019ve been of a role, because it was so far from who I am.\u2019<\/p>\n
And Brady isn\u2019t slowing down, having just wrapped two films. In Trash TV, she flexes her comedic muscles as an executive producer of a \u2018Jerry Springer-style TV show\u2019 who is \u2018grappling with how dark that world is, the ethics of it and the fact she wants to rise in this industry\u2019, she explains. Then there\u2019s Clio Barnard\u2019s screen adaptation of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, based on the book by Keiran Goddard, which offers Brady a chance to break ground in the social-realist genre she adores. \u2018You\u2019re lifting the curtain into a person\u2019s life in such a heartbreaking, relatable way, while not doing anything that feels dramatic for the sake of it,\u2019 she says. \u2018Parts for women are definitely getting more interesting.\u2019<\/p>\n
Talent wears Chanel fashion and jewellery throughout.<\/p>\n
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Lulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\n Aggy K Adams has been making waves ever since her breakthrough in 2019\u2019s Oh, Ramona!, a Romanian coming-of-age film in which she played the eponymous role. Since then, the British-Polish actor has appeared in French comedy series Greek Salad and American sci-fi thriller Altered, and enthralled viewers as alluring Norwegian nurse Mia in the second series of British psychological thriller The Couple Next Door. But the key to the 30-year-old\u2019s success is her refusal to embrace the tropes projected onto her characters, such as Mia. \u2018I understand the world sees her as a seductress, but I don\u2019t focus on that because there\u2019ll be no depth,\u2019 she says. \u2018[As Mia] I\u2019m lonely as hell in a foreign country where people are quite stand-offish, and this is how I explain all of my actions. I don\u2019t mind how people see things, because I know what story I\u2019m telling.\u2019<\/p>\n Now Adams is doing \u2018a lot of manifesting\u2019. She would love to star in a period piece, \u2018going back and seeing how women had to be in the 1950s\u2019, she explains. \u2018I have so much compassion for those women, so I\u2019d love to explore how that felt.\u2019 She has a strong desire to make the type of films she\u2019d buy tickets for at film festivals, too. \u2018Not every festival movie is good, but it seems like the stories are created from a real place of need,\u2019 she says. \u2018I want to tell incredible stories and portray great characters for great directors.\u2019 And she\u2019s even working on a few personal projects to boot. \u2018The more I act, the more I learn about writing,\u2019 she says. \u2018So I\u2019m developing my own scripts \u2013 it\u2019s my way of empowering myself.\u2019<\/p>\n Lulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\n Since 2016, Shalom Brune-Franklin has been charming audiences around the world with her diverse range of rich, complex characters. Appearing in popular BBC dramas Our Girl and Line of Duty, as well as black comedies such as Baby Reindeer and The Assassin \u2013 the latter for which she teamed up again with The Tourist showrunners Harry and Jack Williams \u2013 she throws herself into every role she gets. \u2018Sometimes you have moments when you read the script and go, ‘If I don\u2019t get that, I should quit because that is perfect,’\u2019 says the British-Australian actor of Mauritian and Thai heritage. \u2018It\u2019s a ridiculous and extreme way to think, but there are those characters that just resonate, where you feel like you can add so much to the script that you have to be a part of it.\u2019<\/p>\n That was the case for Dune: Prophecy, the TV spin-off of the blockbuster sci-fi franchise, in which the 31-year-old plays Fremen rebel Mikaela. \u2018I loved it, but it was really overwhelming,\u2019 she says of the major following that comes with such huge IP. \u2018Normally, when I finish a show, I just hope people will watch it, and Dune: Prophecy was more terrifying because there\u2019s going to be an audience, so it\u2019s about whether it lives up to the expectation. I remember it being quite exciting but also crippling for everyone on set.\u2019 Up next, Brune-Franklin will star alongside Robin Wright in the psycho-logical thriller series The Girlfriend and opposite Bella Ramsey in George Jaques\u2019 upcoming feature Sunny Dancer, playing a child therapist at a summer camp for young people affected by cancer. \u2018It\u2019s such a beautiful story and was an all-round enriching creative experience,\u2019 she says. \u2018I love doing this job \u2013 I\u2019m living the dream.\u2019<\/p>\n Lulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\n This year marks a decade in the business for the ebullient Ella-Rae Smith, who began acting aged 17 and has made a captivating impression in various genres across film and TV. On the small screen, the 27-year-old has appeared as effervescent socialite Phoebe in the thriller Clique, gifted enforcer Nix in the action series Into the Badlands and cunning Queen Sareth I in the sci-fi epic Foundation \u2013 all characters she has \u2018poured a bit of myself into\u2019, she says. \u2018I like feeling and experiencing things that would never happen in my daily life.\u2019<\/p>\n It\u2019s why she signed on to DW Medoff\u2019s Your Host, a cabin-in-the-woods set-up where four friends are tortured by a deranged man. Horror isn\u2019t a genre that Smith is a particular fan of but, despite the film\u2019s script being filled with \u2018violence and gore\u2019, it piqued her curiosity. \u2018Being scared for your life every single moment is not something I feel day to day, so it seemed such an interesting thought experiment to go through that,\u2019 she says. \u2018I got offered Cinema is where Smith\u2019s heart lies and, after earning acclaim in 2021\u2019s endearing coming-of-age romance Sweetheart, she hopes to make bigger contributions to the silver screen. \u2018Film is the most accessible form of art,\u2019 she says. \u2018It\u2019s a combination of all the different arts in one piece, and it makes me so happy.\u2019 And when she looks back at her body of work, it\u2019s a beautiful reminder of where she\u2019s been and where she wants to go next with her career.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ve supported myself since I was 17, and every project is a time capsule of a certain period of my life,\u2019 Smith says. \u2018I love bringing someone else\u2019s vision to life, but writing gives you the power, some form of creative control, and I\u2019ve been writing for a few years now.\u2019<\/p>\n Lulu McArdle<\/span><\/p>\n Millie Brady is a natural in front of the camera, but it hasn\u2019t always been easy. A former model who began working in the industry as a child, she describes years spent overcoming hang-ups about her body and emotional insecurities. Once she switched gears into acting, however, she \u2018started to learn that I had autonomy over myself\u2019, she says. \u2018I thought that I had to be eloquent, that I had to hide all of my silliness, but I\u2019m at a point in my career where I\u2019m proud of the work I\u2019ve done and proud of the person I am.\u2019<\/p>\n And so she should be. At 31, the British actor has already built an impressive showcase of character work, from wealthy cellist Eliza with her suitcase full of familial and romantic discontent in the second season of Surface, to her captivating performance in Irish sci-fi thriller Double Blind as Claire, a test subject who must stay awake or die. There was also a small but significant turn in The Queen\u2019s Gambit as French model Cleo. \u2018She\u2019s this really sexually confident French woman,\u2019 she says. \u2018It was the proudest that I\u2019ve been of a role, because it was so far from who I am.\u2019<\/p>\n And Brady isn\u2019t slowing down, having just wrapped two films. In Trash TV, she flexes her comedic muscles as an executive producer of a \u2018Jerry Springer-style TV show\u2019 who is \u2018grappling with how dark that world is, the ethics of it and the fact she wants to rise in this industry\u2019, she explains. Then there\u2019s Clio Barnard\u2019s screen adaptation of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, based on the book by Keiran Goddard, which offers Brady a chance to break ground in the social-realist genre she adores. \u2018You\u2019re lifting the curtain into a person\u2019s life in such a heartbreaking, relatable way, while not doing anything that feels dramatic for the sake of it,\u2019 she says. \u2018Parts for women are definitely getting more interesting.\u2019<\/p>\n Talent wears Chanel fashion and jewellery throughout.<\/p>\nShalom Brune-Franklin<\/h2>\n
The Dune lead swaps sci-fi for a psychological thriller<\/h3>\n
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Ella-Rae Smith<\/h2>\n
From romance to horror, this British talent can do it all<\/h3>\n
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the role and thought,\u201cThis is going to be fun. This is exciting. This is new. This is different.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\nMillie Brady<\/h2>\n
With two upcoming films, this model-turned-actor is one to watch<\/h3>\n
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