Kaya Chats With Interview Magazine

December 19th, 2011 • By Tayna • E-Articles, Kaya, Press, Wuthering Heights

You can read the interview below:

Brazilian Brit Kaya Scodelario has experience playing troubled youths. She is undoubtedly most famous for her role as Effy Stonem on the UK version (really, the only version) of Skins. Enigmatic Effy didn’t say much, though she was the show’s longest running character: appearing in the first four seasons, Effy didn’t have any lines until the show’s eighth episode. But Effy didn’t need to speak. Somehow, with a raised eyebrow, a roll of the eye and a sideways smile, Kaya clearly conveyed her character: an alarmingly precocious and disillusioned teenager. More recently, Kaya has taken on the role of Cathy Earnshaw in indie director Andrea Arnold’s much-lauded adaptation of Wuthering Heights and filmed Now is Good opposite Marc Jacobs’ darling, Dakota Fanning. We caught Kaya before she runs off to LA to shoot her next film with Jessica Biel and Alfred Molina, to chat about teenage romance, Antonio Banderas, and how she’s brushing up on her American accent.

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Interview with Stylist

December 2nd, 2011 • By Tayna • E-Articles, Kaya, Press, Wuthering Heights

Stylist has just posted their interview with Kaya, which you can read below:

Kaya Scodelario is a woman in transition.

At 19, she is on the cusp of both adulthood and international fame and was recently plucked from teen drama Skins to appear in Andrea Arnold’s big-screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Not only that, she took on the lead role of Heathcliff’s Cathy, with no formal drama training and having never read the book (“our school didn’t do that,” she explains).

Not that any of this phases Kaya. In fact the up-and-coming talent of British cinema seems remarkably composed when we meet in central London to discuss her latest film.

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Odds and Ends

November 28th, 2011 • By Tayna • E-Articles, Kaya, Magazine Scans, Videos

First off, I was able to get hold of the Oct. 16th issue of The Sunday Times, and updated the scans, which you can check out in the gallery. Also, Company magazine has named Kaya one of their new style icons. Check below to read that they had to say:

New Style Icons: Kaya Scodelario

Best known for her role in the cult Skins, the gorgeous Kaya has gone on to star in a whole host of films and music videos, as well as managing to squeeze in a few appearances at fashion week. As she gets older her style as developed – as has our style crush!

Lastly, here’s another clip from Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman:

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Out of Her Skin

November 18th, 2011 • By Tayna • E-Articles, Kaya, Press, Wuthering Heights

Now that my computer is back from repairs, here is a new interview from the Irish Times:

IF YOU THINK those Jane Austen fans are hardcore, doubtless you missed last year’s tweet storm – that’s a flame war in old-world net speak – down by Kaya Scodelario’s official Twitter feed. Emily Brontë fans were forced to reach for the smelling salts as the Skins star shared her good news: “I’m gonna be in the new Wuthering Heights film!” wrote Scodelario. “As Cathy! Should probs read the book…” She never did. Director Andrea Arnold forbade the young actor from reading the source novel and from watching any older adaptations. Hours before the film’s London premiere, Scodelario has yet to crack the spine on the third Brontë sister’s only surviving tome.

“I read a lot, but never came across it,” says the 19-year-old. “And I’m quite a technical person. I like to research. It was hard to stay away. But I understood. She wanted us to be very raw. Actually, I never read a whole script. The first time I found out what happened to the characters was when I saw the film.”

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Little White Lies Interview

November 16th, 2011 • By Tayna • E-Articles, Kaya, Press, Wuthering Heights

Little White Lies has posted a new interview with Kaya today, where they talk about filming Wuthering Heights. You can read it below:

Since finding her acting feet in British teen soap Skins, Kaya Scodelario has notched up roles in a low-budget British sci-fi (Moon), a mega-bucks Hollywood blockbuster (Clash of the Titans) and now an art-house period drama. LWLies sat down with Scodelario recently to discuss the gravity of taking on the female lead in Andrea Arnold’s atmospheric Wuthering Heights.

LWLies: Have you seen the film yet? What did you think?

Scodelario: I really liked it! It was weird because I never received a full script, we were given the lines the day before shooting. So watching the film was the first time I knew what was going on in the rest of the film! So it was really cool to watch. I took some friends as well, who I know would never have gone to see it if I wasn’t in it. They’d think, ‘That’s not my thing,’ and they really enjoyed it. It was nice to know that a younger generation enjoyed it.

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