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From high school dropout to Colin Firth co-star: Odessa Young’s big gamble
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Related: Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’ Young was single-minded in her ambition. She had had her big career break at 16, playing the eponymous runaway teenager in Sue Brooks’s Looking for Grace, before a week later filming the part of Hedvig in Simon Stone’s film The Daughter, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck. But the gamble would take time to pay off.
No roles were offered the high school dropout. “Nothing happened for a year, and I sat on my arse and didn’t do anything,” she says with a laugh. The day after her 18th birthday, Young moved to Los Angeles.
Now 24, Young has been living in the US for six years – the past four of them in New York (“I don’t like single industry towns,” she says, of leaving LA). She takes a star turn as a 1920s English maid in French director Eva Husson’s film Mothering Sunday, which comes out in Australia this week. Her character, Jane Fairchild, is prevented from marrying her secret upper-class lover Paul Sheringham (The Crown’s Josh O’Connor) by the strictures of class, gender and religion, having been raised in an orphanage where she was trained then pressed into domestic service.
The feminist role, in which Jane achieves freedom through receipt of a typewriter and the words of Virginia Woolf, is a departure from Young’s breakout role in The Daughter. At the centre of a gloomy family maelstrom, Hedvig was afforded no room for autonomy in that story, only fatal tragedy. I figured that I’m good at crying on camera; now I’m actively trying not to cry“I think I got typecast as ‘the screamer’ for a while after that one,” Young jokes, speaking from her home of the past four years in Williamsburg, New York, where she lives with her
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