Daisy Edgar-Jones is weighing in on her male co-stars, who she says have supported her being high billed over them.
Edgar-Jones has had many A-list male co-stars like Glen Powell on Twisters, Sebastian Stan on Recent, and Paul Mescal on Regular Folks.
“I’ve labored with mainly the entire web’s boyfriends,” she mentioned in an interview with Elle. “And I’m fortunate that each actor I’ve labored with has been extremely supportive of me being the lead. Glen, Sebastian, Paul, all of them. I feel that’s why they’re so profitable and so liked and so good: that they’re so beneficiant, and so they actually serve the story and are usually not serving themselves.”
She continued, “Glen was at all times like, ‘What’s Kate’s journey on this? Let’s discover it.’ And similar with Sebastian; he was so utterly invested in Noa’s journey. Paul’s like taking part in tennis together with your greatest buddy. I’m nervous for the purpose that it involves working with somebody who may not be so chill with it! As a result of there’s a lot ego that may exist on this trade.”
Edgar-Jones’ roster consists of Harris Dickinson in The place the Crawdads Sing, Andrew Garfield in Underneath the Banner of Heaven, and Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses.
“Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler left,” she joked concerning the actors she nonetheless has to work with.
Dickinson, who co-starred with Edgar-Jones in The place the Crawdads Sing, instructed the publication about working with the actress, “She’s one of many kindest individuals I’ve ever met. She has immense persistence and sensitivity. I feel that makes her an excellent artist, too, as a result of it means she’s totally tuned in.”
As for girls main movies, Edgar-Jones mentioned, “It’s nice that an increasing number of tales are being made with girls entrance and middle. It’s additionally an attention-grabbing factor, being a girl in your 20s, wanting to search out characters who are usually not at all times ingenues.”
“You wish to discover characters with company. I would like each character I play to be difficult and deep and have layers to them, as a result of that’s what it’s to be human,” she continued. “I really feel fortunate that a whole lot of the characters I’ve performed have had that. They aren’t outlined by their actions or their experiences, or by the boys of their life. Like with Kate in Twisters, I do know there was an enormous uproar that there wasn’t a kiss on the finish. However she went on a journey in that movie that was larger than a romantic journey.”
