Daisy Edgar-Jones

Ahead of the premiere of the mystery film 'Where the Crawdads Sing', leading lady Daisy Edgar-Jones lets us in on how life has changed since 'Normal People'

I would have told myself to try and enjoy the parts of it that were amazing and pause a little bit more.” The next day, I’m going to be a Victorian woman in distress and I’m only going to wear nightgowns. I also have this vintage white dress which has a little collar and it’s got flowers on it which my cousin gave to me.” As our conversation comes to a close, it’s hard not to circle back to the beginning of it all. I was quite confident, but also quite shy,” she recalls of her time in school. I’m a bit of a duck. When the audition came through, it’s quite hard to describe, but although there was a part of me that was so desperate to get it and anxious that I wouldn’t, there was also a part of me that felt like this was going to be a part of my life,” she shares, her eyes widening in recollection. I’m a bit of a duck. So I think yeah, maybe I’m a duck. So I think yeah, maybe I’m a duck. Edgar-Jones’s character, Kya Clarke—a young girl who grows up alone in North Carolina’s vast marsh—is a steely individualist with an eye for ethology, a factor that adds to the film’s colourful and symbolic display of sea critters, insects and birds. She’s also spent plenty of quality time with family and friends and has put on one of her favourite jumpers—a knitted green number—for our chat.

The 24-year-old was speaking as she returned to Dublin for the premiere of Where The Crawdads Sing, which is based on the best-selling book by Delia Owens.

“We filmed in New Orleans in the marsh surrounding Louisiana, it’s a great backdrop for the murder mystery of the story because it’s quite a hostile environment. “He’s my best friend in the whole world, it was such a special experience to be a young actor at the start of everything and we really looked out for each other and looked after each other,” she said. “I read it as I was auditioning, I loved the book I really fell in love with that world, I’d never been to a marsh before, and I found the writing so vivid and I really became so immersed in it.

The 24-year-old was speaking as she returned to Dublin for the premiere of Where The Crawdads Sing, which is based on the best-selling book by Delia Owens.

“We filmed in New Orleans in the marsh surrounding Louisiana, it’s a great backdrop for the murder mystery of the story because it’s quite a hostile environment. “He’s my best friend in the whole world, it was such a special experience to be a young actor at the start of everything and we really looked out for each other and looked after each other,” she said. “I read it as I was auditioning, I loved the book I really fell in love with that world, I’d never been to a marsh before, and I found the writing so vivid and I really became so immersed in it.

The Normal People star jetted into the capital on Tuesday and named her prime spot for a night out.

“We filmed in New Orleans in the marsh surrounding Louisiana, it’s a great backdrop for the murder mystery of the story because it’s quite a hostile environment. “I actually really like Xico’s - the nightclub. Promoted Stories

Daisy Edgar-Jones (star of Normal People) features in an exclusive new trailer for Sony Pictures' Where the Crawdads Sing, encouraging fans to experience the stunning new film exclusively in cinemas this July. The trailer is being shared as part of the ...

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Daisy said she’s delighted to return to Ireland for the first time since filming Normal People alongside Paul Mescal. “I actually really like Xico’s - the nightclub. Daisy said she’s delighted to return to Ireland for the first time since filming Normal People alongside Paul Mescal.

Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones says her new female-led movie has inspired her ambitions.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones is having her moment in the sun right now (as she should). But, is the actress currently single or loved up? Read on as we investigate.

Currently, it appears that the actress is single, likely due to her overwhelmingly busy schedule with filming, photoshoots and everything in-between. Oh, this is weird!’ and we all had to acknowledge that it was a bit weird, and then it was fine!” And who has stolen her heart in the past?

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“There was never a case, there was nothing.” Regardless, Crawdads is dominated by themes of reputation, local suspicion and the violence of nature. “Fame as a concept is a funny thing for me,” she says, “because I don’t feel like that’s the case [for me] at all.” She calls the attention she got in the midst of peak Normal People mania “purely theoretical”, as the show debuted in the earliest part of the 2020 lockdown. “That’s the best piece of advice I’ve ever got,” Smith deadpans. If Smith follows in the footsteps of Edgar-Jones’s previous leading men, his face will be imminently decorating phone backgrounds and teenagers’ bedroom walls. “Reese had a bit of an ‘a-ha’ moment, because I don’t think she even knew I was in that.” It’s one of the film’s many parallels to Owens’ personal history, in which her ex-husband and stepson were implicated by some witnesses in the unsolved murder of a poacher in Zambia in 1995, when she and her family worked in wildlife conservation. Lest it sound a bit bleak, Crawdads is also basically The Notebook. Dressed in earnest plaid and preppy duds, Smith plays the dreamily virtuous high-school love interest your grandmother would love. “Reese was like, ‘You look familiar’,” Smith recalls, of a conversation they had a few days earlier. Young orphan Kya (Edgar-Jones) longs to spend her days in the wild, sketching her animal friends and occasionally making love to dapper city boy Tate (Smith). But the unnatural world keeps intruding on her, be it via Tate’s ambition to pursue an education, the cruelty of the nearby town, or wealthy cad Chase (Harris Dickinson), who draws her into an uneasy fling. And this is a big one. I want to dye my hair wild colours, and work with filmmakers I admire.” “I want to play characters who are really meaty and funny and weird,” she says over Zoom from Los Angeles. “I’d love to be a character actor, playing parts that are different from anything I’ve played before.