I’ve just made a cancer drama, called ‘Now Is Good,’ directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it’s about a girl dying of leukemia, although it’s not as depressing as it sounds. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you’re just focusing on the project at hand. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
I don’t stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that’s what I do, and I enjoy it. It’s how I do my work. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from ‘Skins’ went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
I’m not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It’s just not me – high heels and designer dresses – and I can’t seem to get used to it. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That’s what makes us all tick, and that’s what I’ve always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that. Kaya Scodelario Read Quote
