From high school dropout to Colin Firth co-star: Odessa Young’s big gamble
msn.comRelated: Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’ Young was single-minded in her ambition.
She had had her big career break at 16, playing the eponymous runaway teenager in Sue Brooks’s Looking for Grace, before a week later filming the part of Hedvig in Simon Stone’s film The Daughter, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck.
But the gamble would take time to pay off. No roles were offered the high school dropout. “Nothing happened for a year, and I sat on my arse and didn’t do anything,” she says with a laugh.
The day after her 18th birthday, Young moved to Los Angeles. Now 24, Young has been living in the US for six years – the past four of them in New York (“I don’t like single industry towns,” she says, of leaving LA).
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