This year, Daisy Edgar-Jones’s Golden Globes will involve more of an actual party than most.
After shooting through the night for five days in a row for her upcoming thriller Fresh, the Normal People star will be celebrating her nomination at her Vancouver apartment with her on-set bubble. “It’s just crazy – I’m properly pinching myself,” the 22-year-old says over the phone of her first “awards ceremony from the waist up”, which sees her nominated for Best Actress in a Limited Series. “There’s a big camera set up in my living room. The costume team from Fresh are coming over to help fit my dress, and someone else from the set is curating a little ‘backdrop’. One friend is bringing champagne flutes; another is bringing chocolate-covered strawberries...”
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But back to the dress. “It’s the most beautiful dress I’ve ever seen,” she says. “I had a couple of rails to go through via FaceTime with my stylist Nicky Yates. All of the gowns were amazing but this one is just special. It’s Chanel, haute couture, and covered head-to-toe in these embroidered daisies – which is obviously fitting.” As for her plans for her much-imitated hair? “Because the dress is so incredible, we’re keeping my hair and make-up quite fresh and simple,” she explains. “Dewy skin and a loose up-do.”
Naturally, she’s thrilled to be recognised at the ceremony – although she wishes her co-star, Paul Mescal, had also received a nod. (Back in September, Mescal received an Emmy nomination, while Edgar-Jones missed out.) “Paul and I had a big old FaceTime,” she says with a laugh. “We’re such great friends now, and we’d just love to be able to be together somewhere and celebrate. Honestly, neither of us can still quite believe that we’ve been nominated for anything.”
Another reason Edgar-Jones is feeling excited? The long-awaited casting announcement for the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, which is being handled by the same creative team as Normal People. “It’s brilliant! The lovely Alison Oliver, who’s been cast as Frances, actually came on set a few times while we were filming Normal People, and I met her. She’s going to smash it out of the park. I wish I could be involved in any capacity, be an AD or something and fetch everyone cups of tea. It’s like there’s the Marvel universe, and the Sally Rooney universe. Maybe Marianne and Connell could wander past in the background of a scene.”
Edgar-Jones, however, will be far too busy with her own upcoming projects to reprise her role as Marianne anytime soon. As soon as she wraps production on Fresh, she heads directly to the set of Reese Witherspoon’s blockbuster adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, which will see her play the so-called marsh girl Kya. “I adore taking on literary characters,” Edgar-Jones notes. “The universe that Delia Owens has created is just phenomenal – as is the character of Kya: her strength, her resilience, her love of nature. To be able to go and just be in the marshes as her for the next few months feels like such a privilege.”
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