Daisy Edgar-Jones has arrived in New York fresh off a trip to Milan Fashion Week. She is as willowy, doe-eyed, and dewy-skinned in person as she appeared in Normal People, the steamy 2020 series that launched the 23-year-old British actor to sudden, global fame. Yet she lets out a peal laughter at the notion that she might have walked in a fashion show. She was just attending a Gucci event, not hitting the runway.
“I’ve got a bit of a weird walk, actually,” she muses, perched on a sleek booth in the lounge of a sky-high Manhattan hotel, a phalanx of publicists waiting in the lobby. “I remember my first job was this show called Cold Feet, and I really had such a small part. One of the first scenes I ever had to do was just, like, walking somewhere. And I remember being so self-conscious and being so aware of: ‘I want to act like I’m walking. I want to look like I’m…
