No./6 Daisy Edgar-Jones is fishing for a challenge
In WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, the rising star embraces her first solo lead role
DAISY EDGAR-JONES sure knows how to throw a punch. In the trailer for Where The Crawdads Sing, the feature adaptation of Delia Owens’ bestselling novel, Edgar-Jones’ character Kya strikes a young man forcefully across the face. “Oh, thank you!” she says when Empire compliments her on her left hook. Her technique, it turns out, had been perfected on Sebastian Stan in Fresh, a romantic horror about cannibalism, which was also her first major movie role. “You really just have to go for it and give them a full wallop.”