Hello DEJ fans! Daisy is featured in the new June issue of Vanity Fair UK, with a pretty new photoshoot! Our gallery has been updated with digital scans and the photoshoot, and you can read her article below.

Need someone to bring your blockbuster book to life? Just give the star of Normal People and Where the Crawdads Sing a call.

When Normal People arrived on Hulu in 2020, the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel made a star of Daisy Edgar-Jones. The actor and avid reader has continued bringing more beloved books to the screen, including Under the Banner of Heaven and Where the Crawdads Sing. In the meantime, there’s Sundance darling Fresh, a comedy with a cannibalistic twist. Edgar-Jones reflects on her whirlwind rise and what chapters may lie ahead.

THE ONLY CHILD of a film editor mother and television executive father, Edgar-Jones fell for acting during a primary school play about Henry VIII. (She played Anne Boleyn.)

AFTER FOUR YEARS in small TV parts, she landed Normal People. Costar Paul Mescal “will always be one of my best, best friends. We were terrified, and we really held each other through that experience. Actually, we just went to Coachella together.”

SHE’LL NEVER FORGET filming Fresh’s more gruesome scenes. “ ‘You want to have a shot of my bare arse on the operating table?’ That was the weirdest professional discussion I’ve ever had.” Reading the zany script, she remembers thinking, This could go really wrong. “But, do you know what? This is my 20s. I want this to be a time for learning.”

HONORING HER character in FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, a murder victim, was crucial. “Brenda’s family is still alive, and we have an opportunity to share her life.” As pageant queen Brenda, the actor also performs “The Rose” onscreen. “Bette Midler, man. It’s quite a tricky song.”

AS A FAN of Delia Owens’s book, Edgar-Jones braved lightning, floods, gators, and cockroaches filming Crawdads in New Orleans. “I kept thinking, This is the scene in the book where…. And then going, Oh, my God, but we only have 20 minutes to film it.”

UP NEXT, she’s looking for a summer project, adjusting to Hollywood—“It’s surreal to be in a room with people you’ve been watching all your life, you feel like you stepped inside the telly!”—and hoping to get a call from Wes Anderson.

As you already know from our post earlier this weekend, Daisy is featured on the cover of The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine this month, and our gallery has now been updated with digital scans and photoshoot outtakes! I hope to eventually replace them with better quality versions, but for now, these are still well worth a glance – this is probably one of my favorite Daisy shoots to date.

Big thanks to my kind friend Hanne for helping us get these scans!

The actress became an overnight star aged 21 thanks to Normal People — and the self-confessed ‘good girl’ has been working nonstop ever since. But behind the scenes there’s just a normal twentysomething who’s desperate to kick back and make some mistakes.

Think of that great scene in Fleabag where the guy goes, ‘It’s just a haircut,’ and she goes, ‘It is not just a haircut!’ ” Daisy Edgar-Jones says, stabbing a chip into the air for emphasis. The 23-year-old actress is explaining to me why, while she finds it hilarious to be attached to 2020’s most famous fringe — which spawned articles in every publication from the Daily Mirror to Vanity Fair — she also totally gets it. “Hair says so much about how we want to express ourselves,” she says, and her fringe “has good vibes”. She had it cut just before auditioning for the role of Marianne in the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, which clocked up 63 million. (Read full interview here or in the scans in our gallery)

Exciting news! Daisy will be the cover star of The Sunday Times Style issue released on May 1st, featuring a gorgeous new photoshoot by photographer Charlotte Joanna Hadden. To celebrate the issue and Under The Banner of Heaven, the magazine has released a behind the scenes interview which you can watch below. The cover can be found in our gallery, and we will of course add scans as soon as possible. Make sure you pick up your own copy of the magazine when it hits the stands!

To celebrate her new show, Under the Banner of Heaven, we sat down with Style cover star Daisy Edgar-Jones to play a game of Finish the Sentence. What is Daisy’s favourite memory from shooting Normal People? What does she look for most in a script and what was her funniest experience on set? Watch now to find out.