Sheila Atim’s reaction to the epic battle scenes? “Don’t even – I had to hit pause and do a little scream.”
She’s most often recognised, though, for her devastating performance as Mabel in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation ofThe Woman King.
“I find those sort of crossovers happen to me a lot,” Atim reflects happily. “You end up building these communities of like-minded people, and working with them again and again.” Her next reunion? An A24 film with Jenkins andAll things considered, it’s hard to believe that Atim only seriously thought about an acting career in her 20s. Her mother left Uganda during the civil war in the early ’90s with an infant Atim in tow, settling in the suburbs of East London permanently.
At home, Atim’s day-to-day is decidedly more low-key. She’s developed an obsession with DIY projects since moving into her London apartment , and she likes to spend her spare evenings going to jam sessions by herself. “Live music is a big replenisher for me,” she says. “I love being on my own, doing things on my own, going places on my own – that’s me, that’s my life, and I like it.”
Those hours alone serve a purpose, too: preventing the multihyphenate from burning out. At the moment, Atim is developing a screenplay inspired by her Ugandan background, in between running an informal salon for British creatives and writing more of her own music, which fuses jazz, hip-hop and classical influences. She’s confident that all of these disparate threads will end up weaving themselves together at some point.
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