![]() Sometimes I think, ‘Lily, for God’s sake, what’s wrong with you?’” It’s like a security blanket – I just become some sort of caricature. ![]() “I sound like a boarding-school girl who’s 15 years old and has midnight feasts. We’re driving across London, from Walthamstow to her dinner date in Soho she talks animatedly, waving her hands and darting off on tangents as we’re jostled about on the back seat. “When I’m a bit nervous and don’t know what to say, I go very jolly hockey sticks,” she says. It is endearing how openly the actor Lily James bears her insecurities – with an assured self-acceptance nonetheless. Having made bold and fresh acting choices spanning eras and genres, James is a talent intriguing an audience who wish to know more. Her forthcoming turn as the second Mrs de Winter in Ben Wheatley’s remake of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic tale Rebecca promises more accolades – adding to those from directors including Danny Boyle and Edgar Wright. The actor, most famous for a litany of leading roles in period dramas, straddles generational appeal: she is as at ease as a teen pin-up as she is playing a beribboned, bonnet-clad aristocrat, a mobster’s love interest or Cinderella. ![]() Lily James is much more than an English rose. ![]()
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