For Daisy Edgar-Jones, Life Is But a Dream

When I catch Daisy Edgar-Jones for this interview, it’s a type of unseasonably heat New York days the place the entire town comes alive, activated via the promise of summer time. She is en course again to town, the place she’s dwelling for the following couple of months filming a brand new function, humming off the magic of this shoot (which came about relatively upstate at a historical mid-century area on Petra Island) and the discharge of her most up-to-date movie, a quietly hedonistic drama set in 1950s Southern California.

“I’m a huge romantic,” she says, gushing over this newest mission, which hit theaters the week that we discuss. “It’s a gorgeous exploration of love and sexuality as a young person, and I’m really proud of it.”

Throughout the movie, Edgar-Jones is styled in Old Hollywood-style glamorous scarves — now not in contrast to the ones from the House’s assortment observed right here — leveraging her healthy, ’50s housewife glance to masks a simmering queer craving and a burgeoning playing dependancy. This is a dream function for her.

“We’re all incredibly complex and flawed and humans, and those are the qualities I’m most drawn to,” she states, reflecting on her decade-long occupation taking part in layered, difficult younger ladies. “I think that’s what I find the most interesting about film: the opportunity to explore the inner life.”

This sentiment aligns properly with the Gucci Lido assortment, which will pay homage to the topics so central to the House – the Interlocking G emblem, the Horsebit, using full-bleed colour – however reimagined for 2025, which is the rest however easy. We have, ovviamente, summery hotel put on, however the personality evoked with every glance seems like she has one thing scrumptious hiding in her basket-weave handbag, or below her head scarves and outsized sun shades.

To intensify this concept, Daisy Edgar-Jones stars within the accompanying marketing campaign shot via photographer Jim Goldberg, which references his personal paintings from the 1980s: a sequence of placing black and white portraits juxtaposed via written musings from every topic. One shot, that includes a blonde attractiveness in repose on summer time holiday, is captioned in her personal hand: “I like to be attractive and distant. I love the games, intrigue and mystery of being a woman. True femininity is a great deal of power.”

This commanding feminine essence has been the through-line of maximum of Edgar-Jones’s defining on-screen paintings. “I’ve been allowed to play real women,” she says with gratitude, acknowledging the truth that it does really feel as even though mainstream Hollywood has handiest just lately granted permission for those tales to be informed at the large display screen. “Even in the larger-than-life commercial movie I starred in last summer, my character had quite a moving journey of grief and loss, losing her sense of self and coming back to it… It’s really exciting to be in a time where women like this take the lead.”

There’s such intensity to each Daisy Edgar-Jones personality that it’s exhausting to imagine she’s handiest 26, which is most likely defined via the truth that she were given her large smash starring in a sensual tv collection that debuted within the heated canine years of the pandemic.

“I always feel so green. I’m still learning so much,” Edgar-Jones admits, reminding me that she was once handiest 21 when her occupation began to blow up. “The pandemic will always be a wild time to think back on for everyone – but for me, it was strange because I came into it one way and left another … Paul [Mescal, her co-star, also a friend of Gucci] texted me the other day and was like, ‘Dais, that came out 5 years ago,’ which is just so crazy.”

As for the longer term, she has so much to sit up for: enmeshing herself New York’s Lower East Side, a summer time filming “in the green rolling hills of the British countryside”, and a birthday. Does she relate to her conflicted solar signal, Gemini?

“It always gets a bit of an ‘oooh’ reaction,” she says with amusing. “But I think – I hope – I’m one of the good ones. I think maybe Gemini’s duality that people always ‘oooh’ about comes into my acting; I like slipping into different personalities and roles in the job.” But in actual existence… “I’m pretty straightforward.”

This is most likely best possible exemplified via her heartwarmingly easy solution to a query, impressed via the Gucci Lido marketing campaign, about a super summer time day.

“The perfect summer day, for me, is getting up really early, getting a coffee, walking around Hampstead Heath, sitting by the ponds, watching people pass by and swim…” she says with a light-heartedness that stands against her oftentimes moody characters. “…Having a pint in the sun in a pub, then going out dancing somewhere in East London. That would be gorgeous.”

An afternoon like this could be a genuinely-earned smash from her technique to performing, which, she admits, is one thing she has no selection however to enter with laser-sharp center of attention.

“When I’m on a job I get quite obsessed by it and find it hard to let myself relax,” she says. “Filmmaking is funny because you have one day, one take, one scene to get it right.” It’s numerous force, however she’s used to it after just about a life-time of coaching. Her early summer time recollections aren’t focused round lengthy days on the seaside or first kisses at camp, however from hours spent on the National Youth Theatre, which is what were given her into the business.

“Whenever I’m working, I go fully into the project,” she says, explaining that she in point of fact doesn’t have any rituals that take her out of “hermit mode” whilst filming. Instead, she dives deeper. “I love the part of the job that allows you to research an area of life or the world that you would never otherwise explore. I know an insane amount about weather formations and tornadoes now, which I don’t know will ever come in handy in East London,” she laughs.

With such an emphasis on paintings and dedication, even though, Daisy Edgar-Jones masterfully maintains her bubbly spirit that audiences and film manufacturers alike have fallen in love with.

“My dad has this phrase ‘Take it seriously, but wear it lightly’, which can be applied everywhere,” (say, those Gucci appears), “But especially in this job. Work really hard, take it seriously. But try not to let it get too heavy. Be light-hearted in spirit. Wear it lightly.”