daisy edgar-jones
Stylist spends a balmy afternoon with Where The Crawdads Sing actor Daisy Edgar-Jones
words: helen bownass
Photography: Simon Emmett
Fashion: polly knight
Within five minutes of meeting Daisy Edgar-Jones, she has shared with me her homemade PowerPointof the bands she wants to see at Glastonbury the following weekend. “I am very, very, very excited!” she enthuses. “My friend helped me make my schedule. And we colour- coded it. There is an app that does it all for you but I prefer to have it on paper. I love live music.” This, my first interaction with the north London-born actor, sums her up neatly: an analogue woman in a digital world, wonderfully earnest, forever on a mission to find fun and full of passion. The 24-year-old headed to Worthy Farm with her co-stars and “best friends in the entire world” India Mullen (Peggy) and Paul Mescal (who played her on-off love interest Connell). The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s cult novel became the BBC’s most streamed series of 2020 and was a life-changing role for Edgar-Jones. She had her first major part in a school play at seven playing Anne Boleyn, got an agent at 15 and went on to star in, but was her first lead role, and she imbued her version, had anticipated. He advised: “Keep your head screwed on, keep your feet on the floor, don’t get too swept up in something; you’re still you, you haven’t changed, even if people around you might.”
