New Face of Film: Kaya Scodelario
The Sunday Times critics has released their new faces of culture for 2012, and have chosen Kaya as the new face of film. The interview below discusses how Wuthering Heights has helped catapult her into new promising roles.
Costume drama is a long way from Skins — which tends more to uncostumed drama — but Kaya Scodelario made a brave leap from teenage television into the dark when she took the part last year of Cathy in Wuthering Heights.
This was no ordinary Brontë remake: it was directed by Andrea Arnold, who has a reputation for concrete high-rise social realism after Red Road and Fish Tank, and Scodelario was thrown in at the muddy deep end in Yorkshire.
“There were no rain machines,” she shudders. “It was all real.” The script was stripped of most dialogue; Scodelario was stripped of any make-up, and told to say lines “in my head”. Plus she had to work with three untrained actors, including James Howson as the first black Heathcliff.
