![]() ![]() What were your conversations like during filming? It’s surprising because you forget you have it on, and then at the end of the day when I can bend my back and move my arms properly, I’m like, ‘Wow! This is crazy!’” Helena Bonham Carter plays your mother. There are moments when you think, ‘I could do without this giant wooden thing wrapped around me,’ but I definitely got used to it. “I trained for a really long time with the stunt department, focusing on choreography. ![]() How much training did that require, especially considering you had to do them in a corset and ball gown? It resonates with me in so many ways.” The film has some astonishing fight scenes. Her story is about how she is afraid of being alone, and in the end, she finds her purpose in life. “She’s brave, vulnerable, honest and witty. Harry Bradbeer and I spoke endlessly about what we wanted for this film - energy, emotion and eccentricity were the three things we lived by. “I was involved in the casting process and the writing. ALEX BAILEY/LEGENDARY ©2020 As a producer, were you involved in every single part of the process? ALEX BAILEY/LEGENDARY ©2020 ENOLA HOLMES. It means a lot to me when I get to walk on set and feel supported looked at as an equal.”ĮNOLA HOLMES. I was listened to and I really appreciated that. My age and my gender weren’t defining the words coming out of my mouth. On set, I definitely felt like I was being taken seriously. I had an amazing team around me and my family saying that we could do this together. ![]() “I was excited, but there’s obviously a set of nerves that come with that. So, we wanted to make something that would inspire young girls.” Were you ever intimidated by the scale of the project? Obviously, we have Hermione from Harry Potter, but she wasn’t the lead. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a young female British lead. I had a gut feeling I wanted to bring it to life and I was like, ‘How do we get this done?’ Then, my incredible dad said, ‘We’re going to find a way.’ We took it to Legendary and explained the premise and why this story needs to be told. My older sister, Paige, read it first and then I read it. “It all started with the book by Nancy Springer. Did you always know that you wanted to do both? Enola Holmes has given you your first leading role in a film as well as your first producing credit. We spoke to the actor about being treated as an equal on set, growing up in the public eye and her very relatable quarantine self-care routine. With Stranger Things, she took home, along with her co-stars, the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2017 for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, received two Emmy nominations in 20, and has now amassed more than 35m Instagram followers. and U.S., she had appeared as a young Alice in the fantasy TV series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013), a haunted child in the supernatural thriller Intruders (2014) and made cameos in episodes of NCIS (2014), Modern Family (2015) and Grey’s Anatomy (2015). It must have seemed surreal to the now 16-year-old actor who, until then, only had a few credits to her name. Her face was plastered across billboards and edited into memes, and the character she played - a telekinetic pre-teen called Eleven - inspired a host of Halloween costumes. ![]() When the Duffer brothers’ sci-fi epic Stranger Things first landed on Netflix, it became a cultural phenomenon and turned its 12-year-old star, Millie Bobby Brown, into a household name. ![]()
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