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.

Magazine Scans > Magazines 2022 > Vanity Fair UK (June)
Photoshoots > Photoshoots 2022 > 2022 – Session #016 (Vanity Fair UK)

Hello Daisy fans! This Monday, the annual Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was held in New York City. The theme for the gala this year was gilded glamour – a reflection of the Gilded Age of New York, which spanned from 1870 to 1890. During this time period, the city was becoming progressively modernized socially, economically, politically, and even fashionably. The Met Gala paid homage to the tailors, dressmakers, and designers of the time.

This is one of the most prestigious events in the industry, and Daisy was invited as a guest of the Fashion House Oscar de la Renta! She walked the red carpet with her ‘Normal People’ co-star Paul Mescal, and seemed to have a really fun evening with him and his fiancé (and Daisy’s close-friend) Phoebe Bridgers. I’ve searched high and low for photos from the event (hence why the post is a day late) as it’s really fun to see Daisy at such a big event – she’s really taking Hollywood with storm! Daisy wore a custom Oscar de la Renta crystal chainmail fringe dress with a bandeau top, accessorized with Tiffany & Co. jewellery at the gala. If you want to learn what products it took to get her stunning make-up, her make-up artist shared all the details on Instagram here!

Our gallery has been updated with high quality photos of Daisy at the red carpet, inside the event and at Tom Ford’s After-Party. We also have two beautiful new photoshoots, done during the preparations for the event! One is by Greg Williams, and the other was taken by Maxwell Swift for Vogue. Vogue also did a piece of Daisy following the event, which you can read below. Enjoy all the new content!



Even before Daisy Edgar-Jones set foot on the carpet at the Met Gala on Monday night, she understood the event’s biggest draw: the cast of characters who fill the Metropolitan Museum of Art with their expressive fashions and vibrant personalities. “I think I’m most looking forward to the people watching,” Edgar-Jones shared while getting ready at the Peninsula Hotel. “It’s my favorite pastime, [and] I think this will be the Olympics of people watching.”

Edgar-Jones has a knack for observation. The 23-year-old star disappears into her roles, and whether she’s pulling off an authentic Midwestern accent in her Hulu mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven, or embodying adolescent ennui in the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People, she gets the details right. That quality came through in Edgar-Jones’s Met look, which perfectly executed the night’s theme. Her shimmering shift dress designed by Oscar de la Renta’s Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim featured layers of crystal fringe.

Modern and youthful, while still calling to mind the flapper gowns of the 1920s, the dress was intended to capture Edgar-Jones’s sparkling personality. “When designing a Met Gala look – and most specifically, someone’s very first Met Gala look – you are trying to make a stamp that represents the person you are that year, that moment,” says Garcia. “Daisy always has a very content, appreciative, joyous energy to her, and because of this, I knew a relaxed glamour approach was right. This two-piece crystal look that is layered on top of each other feels perfect for her as it is gilded glamour through the medium of Daisy.”

Garcia and Kim’s distinctive fringe also serves as a preview of their next runway show. “We were developing these beautiful crystal tendril pieces for our upcoming collection. During the development process, I sent them to Nicky [Yates], Daisy’s stylist, and explained how effortlessly cool they felt, which is very much the energy Daisy has always exuded,” Garcia explains. Though the embellishment was impossible to ignore, Garcia wanted the look to feel understated. “The simplicity was essential for me when thinking of who Daisy is at this time, as she is a very fresh talent, full of possibilities,” he says. “Keeping it cool and effortless while still playing into the gilded glamour through the draped crystals is what felt right for this year. Everyone has a different stage in their life they come to us in, and it is our job to listen as ‘fashion therapists’, and find a way to best communicate this to the world.”

With her hair coiffed by George Northwood and a Cher-inspired turquoise smoky eye created by make-up artist Vincent Oquendo using Shiseido, Edgar-Jones looked like a million bucks. Platinum and diamond earrings from Tiffany & Co. added a final touch of bling before the star hit the red carpet. Describing the total look as “wicked”, she hit the carpet and then enjoyed a night of revelry alongside pals like her Normal People co-star Paul Mescal. Even with all the excitement of a magical night on the town, Edgar-Jones admits she’s looking forward to enjoying some simpler pleasures the moment things calm down. “The last year has been pretty non-stop [and] I spent a huge amount of 2021 away from work,” she says. “Now I’m enjoying being able to spend a little more time at home this year.”

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)


Magazine Scans > Magazines 2022 > The Sunday Times Style (May 1st)
Photoshoots > Photoshoots 2022 > 2022 – Session #014 (Style Magazine)

Daisy is featured on Interview Magazine’s online website today, with a brand new photoshoot and an interview! She and her friend Phoebe Bridgers interviewed each other about impostor syndrome, eating on-screen, and creative turnoffs. You can find the 4 photoshoot photos in our gallery, and read the full interview below!

Photoshoots > Photoshoots 2022 > 2022 – Session #013 (Interview Magazine)

Interview | It’s been two years since Normal People made Daisy Edgar-Jones a star. Her achingly naturalistic performance as Marianne Sheridan in the television version of Sally Rooney’s best seller captivated audiences, and launched a career that is now coming into view. This year, the 23-year-old Brit puts her talent on full display with starring roles in a cannibalistic rom-com (Fresh), a Mormon murder mystery (Under the Banner of Heaven), and the latest product of Reese Witherspoon’s adaptation factory (Where the Crawdads Sing). As busy as she is, Edgar-Jones still had time to chat with her friend, musician Phoebe Bridgers, about impostor syndrome, eating on-screen, and creative turnoffs.

DAISY EDGAR-JONES: Phoebe!

PHOEBE BRIDGERS: How’s it going, dude? Where are you in the world?

EDGAR-JONES: I’m in New York, but I’m leaving for L.A. tomorrow.

BRIDGERS: I just watched Fresh. I knew what it was about and it still scared the shit out of me (1).

EDGAR-JONES: I love that you were scared. Well, I don’t love that you were scared, but it’s a bit mad.

BRIDGERS: It’s so, so good. I love when there’s acting in a movie that has to fool both the audience and another character, like in Mulholland Drive, but I don’t want to give too much away. When you read a script, is there usually a scene that makes you super nervous?

EDGAR-JONES: A hundred percent. In every job, there’s that one scene you know is coming. Usually, they put it right at the end of the schedule, and at the end of the day. You know it’s coming, and you’re like, “I just want to get this scene over with.” I definitely had that with Fresh. I’ve had that with pretty much everything I’ve done. With Fresh, the scene post-credits, it goes to such a crazy place.

BRIDGERS: Do the scenes that make you nervous have a common theme? Or is it just a heavy, emotional scene every time?

EDGAR-JONES: It’s also when you really love a scene. In Normal People, there was a scene where I didn’t realize how much it meant to me until we started filming it. It’s the scene with Marianne and Connell, where he comes back and he’s got a bloodied nose, and she’s with Jamie at that point, and they have a conversation in the kitchen. I loved that scene so much in the book, so when it came to filming it, I was like, “Oh, my gosh, I’m really nervous.”

BRIDGERS: Sometimes the super emotional scenes aren’t the most challenging, it’s the subtleties. Especially with a character like Marianne. How can you get betrayal, keeping it cool, love, all that shit on your face at once without saying fucking anything ever? That character just won’t communicate.

EDGAR-JONES: We both just emote at each other the whole time, silently. It’s so crazy. [Laughs] It’s kind of how real life is. So much of Marianne in the latter part of that series is numb as well. Trying to play active numbness is quite hard.

BRIDGERS: Totally. Okay this is a fun question. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten on set?

EDGAR-JONES: One of the worst things I’ve eaten was actually for Fresh, but it wasn’t the meal you’d think. There’s a scene where Jojo (Jonica T. Gibbs) and I are having a casual chat, eating a breakfast burrito, but the flippy egg—we had to eat that flippy moist egg so many times, even now it makes me feel sick.
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Daisy and her Fresh co-star Sebastian Stan are featured on Flaunt Magazine’s website to promote their film, and it includes a steamy new photoshoot! They both look incredible, and the interview is a fun read. Daisy talks about how she first learned about Fresh, London, her co-star and much more.

Ever had a bad dinner date? It’s not the law attraction—rather the law of averages—that ensures anyone putting themselves, out there on the love-seeking scene today will encounter their fair share of whackjobs, weirdos, and ghosts. But no dating disaster you’ve been through could be worse than what befalls the characters in gripping new Rom-Com/ Horror film, Fresh (Hulu). Starring young British actor Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and seasoned leading man Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I, Tonya, The Martian), Fresh begins by exploring the dynamics of the contemporary dating world… before crossing the boundaries of… taste…

Stan plays Steve, a handsome, single doctor who accidentally (but we realize later, of course, on purpose) strikes up a conversation with Daisy Edgar-Jones’ Noa in the produce aisle. It’s all so natural. They exchange numbers. He texts her. They go on a date. It’s a good date. Since they met IRL and not through an impersonal app interface, they skip a few steps and quickly get intimate. Noa’s best friend, Mollie, (played with verve by Jojo T. Gibbs) finds Steve’s lack of digital presence disturbing, but enjoying the love-buzz, Noa throws herself into her exciting new romance.

But Noa’s soon to find out—the very hard way—that behind this charming facade, ‘Steve’—a pseudonym—is really quite something else. Instead of the sophisticated getaway he promises her, she’s face to face with primal fears, and her sweet, sensitive lover is revealed to be a mix of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and American Psycho, prone to Patrick Bateman-style musical interludes as he … well, that would be giving it all away. Suffice to say, in classic horror movie style, trapped in a mysterious house in the woods, Noa has to find a way to get out… And Fresh—directed by Mimi Cave, written by Lauryn Kahn, and produced by Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up, The Big Short, Vice)—is the clever, knowing, and full of suspense result. (Read the interview in our press archive)


Photoshoots > Photoshoots 2022 > 2022 – Session #011 (Flaunt Magazine)