12 FEATURE artslondonnews.com Friday 00 November 2012 Kaya Scodelario: From teen drama to Tinseltown

‘’I went through a year of hating my- self at secondary school, I was bul- lied to the point of having to change schools because it got so bad’’

It seems the skins star, now age 23, al- most has bullies to thank for her rise to fame and her suc- sess.

The English born beauty has now bro- ken America and is Kaya as Effy Stonem in Skins with co-starts Luke Pasqualino and Jack O’ Connell happily married. She charts much of her The Scorch Trials’ as 14 for a role in the her character being success down to a strong female lead gritty British teen dra- diagnosed with a Skins audition tak- ‘Teresa Agnes’. ma claiming that act- case of psychotic de- en on the off chance ing was the only thing pression (Series 4) after having to flee ‘’I could never see she had confidence Kaya commented schools due to cruel myself just playing in. saying she enjoyed bullies. Scodelar- the girlfriend or the depicting ‘the realistic io, born to a Brazil- love conquest, I Scodelario amassed trials and challenges’ ian mother, and an like meaty roles and success through her that Effy faced. English father, is intelligent roles for 4 years in Skins tak- best known for her women’’ ing on a whole range ‘I just want to keep breakthrough perfor- of challenging and working consist- mance as the elusive Despite having dys- thought provoking is- ently and do the job ‘Effy (Elizabeth) Sto- lexia and having ma- sues including trouble that I love, even if nem’ in Skins and jor self esteem issues with relationships with it’s just in the UK recently ‘The Maze as a child, she won family and friends, I would be happy runner’ and sequel the role of Effy after drug taking, adoles- with that’ ‘The Maze Runner: auditioning at just age cence and even with artslondonnews.com Friday 00 November 2012 FEATURE 13 Amusingly her twitter (@KScod- ders) bio line reads ‘When I grow up I want to be the posh drunk couple from Gogglebox’

Scodelario will ap- pear next year in the third part of the Maze Runner pen- tolagy ‘The Death Cure’ which is due to come out in Feb- ruary 2017 and also as astronemer Cari- na Smith in Pirartes As Teresa Agnes in the Maze Runner of the Carribean 5: Dead men tell no The actress re- about Emanuel and grounded, humble tales, which will ap- marked, after com- the fishes, where and local to the area pear on screens in pleting filming for she had to put on she spent many of May 2017. skins in 2013, and an American accent her years growing she certainly did go throughout the whole up in. She current- on and do that, and film, working along- ly shares her North more. side the likes of stars London flat with her such as Jessica Biel. French Bulldog ‘Arnie’ In 2009, Kaya went named after her love on to make her first This must of served of Arnold Schaw- film debut in sci-fi her well as she lat- rznegger. Thriller ‘moon’, and er went on to land a then landed a range star roll in American She recently married of other film roles in- blockbuster triolo- actor Benjamin Walk- cluding the likes of gy ‘The maze run- er (Meryl Streep’s ex british teen drama ner’ alongside Teen son in law) following ‘Shank’ and a 2010 Wolf’s Dylan O’Brien his proposal after just remake of ‘Clash Of and Thomas Bro- a few months of dat- The Titans’ die-Sangster. ing her, who she met whilst filming an ad- In 2013, she filmed Despite her interna- aptation of ‘The Moon her role as ‘Emma- tional sucsess, Kaya and the Sun’. nuel’ in the truth seems to remain well