From Jane Austen’s Persuasion to sci-fi comedies and action thrillers, Nikki Amuka-Bird is driven by strong characters.
The actor talks about mourning her mum, colour-blind casting and being inspired by Helen McCroryWhen Nikki Amuka-Bird started work on Old, the latest film from Hollywood supernatural-loving director M Night Shyamalan, she knew it was going to be special.
It was the summer of 2020, and production on films and television had tentatively started up again.
She flew to the Dominican Republic with an international cast, during hurricane season, to shoot the story of a group of people on holiday on a secluded island, who suddenly start to age at a rapid rate.
I was not able to see it before we met, but it turns out that Amuka-Bird hasn’t watched it yet, either.
The director of The Sixth Sense and Signs – Night, as she calls him, fondly – works on his
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