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Thomasin McKenzie

It’s midday in LA and Thomasin McKenzie is taking my call from her Four Seasons hotel room overlooking Beverly Hills and the city beyond. So perfectly picturesque a setting could easily imply my interviewee is Hollywood’s well-loved ingénue, but the New Zealand-based actor has too much grit and grace to be caught up in a cliché.

“The reason why I got into acting, why I became passionate about it, was because I feel like it’s such an important medium to share different ways of life, different experiences and just telling certain stories –

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