Lucy Boynton Explains How She Controlled Her Career Path at Just 12 Years Old

LucyBoynton explains how she controlled her career path at just 12 years old. ThePaleBlueEye

I’ve been actively seeking out Lucy Boynton’s work ever since catching The Blackcoat’s Daughter at the Toronto International Film Festival back in 2015. She’s been delivering big ever since, making surprising choices and showing off great range at every turn so, of course, I’ve been eager to have her as a guest on Collider Ladies Night, and now the time has come.

“Doing a school play when I was 10 of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was the first proper role I got in a school play. Previous to that my first role in a school play was as a boulder, a literal boulder, and then a tree and then an angel, so it was a real big promotion.

“I think because she was interested in what I wanted, even talking to a 12-year-old. She didn't try and orchestrate or prescribe a career trajectory for me or even what type of roles I should audition for or do. And at the beginning of your career, obviously you're kind of prone to say yes to everything, you have to, and even then she gave me a sense of understanding ‘no’ is your greatest tool, so you don't have to do anything.

“He was so vivid in those scenes. I think he's the heart of the film. He would just plunge into them and go for it. And again, as a young actor, I think I was slightly more tentative and would ease my way in with takes, and he would just be so bold in trying things and be loud and take up space and really create such a saturated sense of that character that I remember just watching that within a scene and being so taken by him and just in awe of his ability to do that and be that.

Bale plays Augustus Landor, a local detective brought in to investigate a grizzly crime at West Point in 1830. Landor soon realizes he won’t be able to crack the case solo so turns to a cadet for a little help, a young Edgar Allan Poe . Boynton’s character, Lea Marquis, is connected in a number of ways. She’s the daughter of the West Point doctor, the sister of a West Point cadet, there’s an unexpected spark between her and Poe, and then some.

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