Where Crabs Sing: Back in Daisy Edgar-Jones’ Voyages, The Revelation of Normal People

With the heartbreaking Irish mini-series Normal People set to air in 2020, Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the list of young actresses to watch out for. He continues his career with the feature film The Crabs Sing, in which he is the hero, which was released in theaters on August 17.

The daughter of an editor and director of TV channels – who started it big brother In Great Britain – the young Londoner became interested in comedy as a teenager and at the age of 14 joined a youth group, the National Youth Theatre. Thanks to the performances in which she shines, she meets her agent and starts running castings from the age of 16. A naturally shy and reserved comedy, it allows him to play characters very different from his own.

It was on television that he made his real acting debut in the 2016 sitcom Cold Feet, which depicts the life of a thirty-something gang in Manchester. Also for the small screen, she appeared in the detective series Unclassified Cases, the costume program Gentleman Jack, dedicated to LGBTQ+ pioneer Anne Lister, and The War of the Worlds, a new adaptation of the SF classic by HG Wells.

But it is in 2020 that his talent is revealed Normal people. Adapted from Sally Rooney’s bestseller, the series follows the complicated romantic relationship of two people who are separated from each other, from their meeting in high school to their studies at university. Like his co-star Paul Mescal, the actor has the first major role of his career here. The precision and sensitivity of their performance has been hailed by critics and Daisy Edgar-Jones has been nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe in 2021. At AlloCiné’s microphone, he recalls: “On set, we didn’t know how big it was going to be. We didn’t even think he was going to see the show.”

This year, the young woman is credited in no fewer than three plays that, coincidentally, deal with all forms of violence against women. In Fresh, a bloody black comedy straight to Disney+, she portrays a single woman tired of dating apps who falls in love with Sebastian Stan. But the romance turns into a nightmare when the latter reveals his true intentions. The actor has the opportunity to rub the shoulders with a more biting register.

At the end of July, French viewers could find him in the credits of the mini-series On God’s Order, inspired by the true story that shocked America and available in France on Disney+. She is Brenda, a fiery and ambitious woman who refuses to be subjugated by the men of the Mormon community to which she belongs. A person who swears in the eyes of his mother-in-law and will pay dearly.

Finally, Daisy Edgar-Jones continues to play another strong female character. He is in the cinema from August 17, the headliner Where the crabs sing, taken from the best-selling book of the same name. He slips into the shoes of a marginal, abandoned at birth and raised in the swamps of North Carolina, who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. “He constantly displays strength and a tremendous capacity for endurance, maintaining a delicate curiosity and an intimate relationship with nature.”He says about his character. For the purpose of the film, he learned how to maneuver a canoe and learned about the swamp environment, fauna, flora and topography. She had to hide her London accent and learn to speak like a woman from the southern United States in the 1960s.

Reese Witherspoon, the film’s producer, is full of her praise: “Daisy Edgar-Jones is an outstanding actress. She knew how to portray a character in many aspects. We feel all of Kia’s vulnerability and all of her cruelty in her acting.” There’s no doubt that we’re not done hearing about the actor expected to star in yet another adaptation of the literary classic, the title of which is still a mystery.