Our March 2022 cover star, Simone Ashley, wears hot pink Valentino for the BAFTAs. We're obsessed. 🔗
– playing bubble gum-blowing cool-girl Olivia Hanan – a bitchy ‘untouchable’ infamous for her fear of showing her boyfriend her ‘cum face’. Simone tells me that she had “zero idea how big it [the show] was going to be”., they had a lot of creative freedom, encouraged to improvise and share ideas. “Mimi Keene [Ruby] brought her own dog into the series by season three. She’s amazing. She is such a character and she brought so much of that to the role.
She laughs at the thought she was anything like Olivia as a teenager, “I was never a part of the popular crew. My God, I was not at all.” She has a photograph on her phone, which she refuses to show me, of her at 12 looking decidedly unfashionable. Yet now she wishes she could tell her teenage self to have more self-assurance, “to get to know yourself more, own yourself more, and just have confidence in yourself”.
The cast all lived together in Wales, like a family, eating together, “We would all stay up until 2am just chatting. It was amazing. It was very, very special. I made some friends for life on that set. We all kind of grew up together.” Her closest friends were Aimee [Lou Wood, who plays Amy Gibbs] and Emma [Mackey, who plays Maeve Wiley]. “I’ve learned so much from Emma. I really look up to her…” Asa [Butterfield, who plays Otis Milburn] “was amazing. He would always host games night.” Simone bonded with Kedar [Williams-Stirling, who plays Jackson Marchetti] over a love of food and cooking together. “I’m really good at breakfast – I can nail an amazing brunch spread – but I think my curry is my statement dish.
– which is famously groundbreaking in its use of ‘colourblind’ casting in a period drama – but Simone seems somewhat ambivalent about the fuss. “I just always saw myself for my personality and not for the colour of my skin,” she says. But she acknowledges that, “Representation matters, and yes, there is a minority that needs to be represented more, and I’m very aware of that… Everyone should be seen. I think we can all relate to each other in some way.”is an ongoing issue.
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