“I feel extremely grateful when I get to play roles where girls who look like me can see themselves in my characters.”
You know that person who says ‘I miss high school so much’? I don’t trust that person. You know the ones who say ‘those were the best years of my life’? Run away as fast as you can.” Aside from her relatable sentiments on the dangers of peaking as a teen, there’s something about Alisha Boe that makes you feel that she could be your best friend.
When we finally find a time in her busy schedule to connect—she has just touched down in London from dreary Scotland where she’s been filming her latest project, a period drama series by Apple TV+ inspired by Edith Wharton’s she’s barefaced, wavy hair free-flowing and her effortless Norwegian-Somali beauty is shining through. “Thanks, with a sense of big picture perspective that would be expected from someone twice her age.
