Her father Graham is a newspaper travel editor and her mother Adriaane is a freelance writer. ‘Lack of sleep is not helping my vocabulary.’ Yet despite being tired, she is articulate and effusive.įrom Blackheath, Southeast London, Lucy, 23, is the daughter of two journalists, which may explain her eloquence. Filming wrapped at 2am: ‘Sorry I am so incoherent,’ she croaks. We meet just hours after she has finished filming in a Welsh forest for another Netflix drama, Apostle, starring Dan Stevens (of Downton fame), about a religious cult in 1905, with Lucy playing the leader’s daughter. ‘Big films used to be very much the thing, but nowadays people see the value in getting to explore characters over a longer space of time,’ says Lucy. New York and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (among others), and predict it will be a huge hit. In the ten-part series, released this month, Lucy plays a young woman addicted to prescription pills who becomes overly close to her therapist, who has issues of her own and encourages the crossing of doctor-patient boundaries. The former child actress – who has made the elusive leap to adult star – is poised to be binge-watched by her millennial contemporaries when she appears opposite Naomi Watts in Gypsy, a highly anticipated new drama from the streaming service. Having been discovered as a South London schoolgirl, Lucy Boynton may now become the Netflix face of her generation.
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