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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm Katie Curic here to share a bonus

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Speaker 1: episode of Next Question, Like a Lot of You. I

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Speaker 1: first came to know Daisy Edgar Jones when she played

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Speaker 1: Mary Anne and the hit BBC adaptation of the Sadly

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Speaker 1: Rooney novel Normal People. You look really well. I know.

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Speaker 1: It's classic Me came to college and got pretty. You're

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Speaker 1: always pretty, very pretty. The series was released in the

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Speaker 1: early days of the pandemic, and for a moment, it

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Speaker 1: seemed like everyone was watching and talking about Daisy. That

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Speaker 1: role earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and she's been

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Speaker 1: working non stop ever since. Already this year, she's appeared

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Speaker 1: in the f X mini series under the banner of

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Speaker 1: Heaven with Andrew Garfield I'm Going to Put an End

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Speaker 1: to This Wickedness it Is, and the black comedy thriller

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Speaker 1: Fresh opposite Sebastian Stand What's going on? Step, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you what You're going to freak out. Her most

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Speaker 1: recent project is another adaptation. She plays Kaya Clark a

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Speaker 1: k A. The marsh Girl in the film version of

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Speaker 1: Delia Owens mega bestselling novel where the Crawdads sing your girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: Now do you want to be Annam Feathers, but the

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Speaker 1: other girls don't know Feathers. All right there. We talked

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Speaker 1: about how she prepared for that role, but also about

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Speaker 1: her acting debut as a very feisty seven year old

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Speaker 1: Am Boleyn, and what she's planning next. So enjoy everyone, Daisy,

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to meet you. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with you. I loved you in Normal People,

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Speaker 1: I loved you in Under the Banner of Heaven and

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Speaker 1: now where the Crawdads sing, I loved you, And that

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Speaker 1: is well, you are having a moment, to say the least.

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Speaker 1: How is it feeling right now too? Honestly, have so

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Speaker 1: many exciting roles and to be so in demand. Oh

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Speaker 1: that's so kind. First of all, thank you. I think

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I feel so luckier. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: So I just feel very very lucky. Really. So I

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Speaker 1: know that your parents are both or were in the business.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they still are. But tell us

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Speaker 1: how you caught the acting bug in the first place, Daisy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I you know, my mom, my mom, before I

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Speaker 1: But I guess I definitely grew up in a nati

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Speaker 1: which I think is the scariest part of an actor really.

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Speaker 1: But for me, like I, you know, I joined the

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Speaker 1: open casting. They did these open castings for a for

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your latest role in as Kaya and

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Speaker 1: Where the craw Dads saying, how did you get involved

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