Jodie Comer has revealed the unlikely beginnings of her award-winning career after she almost missed her shot at the school talent show.
Her latest role sees her star in the BAFTA nominated new film The End We Start From which sees Jodie play a young woman navigating motherhood for the first time during a terrifying apocalyptic flood.
Yet years before Jodie, 30, became one of the most renowned actresses in the UK, the star faced her first setback after she was kicked out of her group at the school talent show.
Appearing on Laura Laverne’s radio show on Thursday, Jodie explained how getting kicked out the group actually led to her big break.
‘I was basically supposed to do a dance from Chicago, the Cell Block Tango at a school talent show when I was 12,’ as Jodie joked: ‘wildly inappropriate, we had to change all the words.’
Jodie Comer, 30, has revealed how being KICKED OUT her group at the school talent show actually kickstarted her award-winning career
Appearing on Laura Laverne’s radio show on Thursday, Jodie explained how she was kicked out her group performance of Chicago, and instead had to go solo
‘Anyway I had gone on holiday and I had been kicked out the group, and I had recently performed a monologue at the Liverpool Drama Festival, which I don’t know if they still do but it was this amazing festival where you’d be entered into a group of 15 people your age and you’d perform a monologue.
‘And I did a piece about Hillsborough at that. So my mum said “Why don’t you do your monologue?” So I did and then I got sent for a BBC radio play and that’s how it all kicked off.’
Heading to the studio to meet Laura, Jodie cut a chic appearance as she donned a simple beige jumper and denim jeans.
The Killing Eve star completed the look with a long black winter coat and black boots, while she covered her eyes with some dark sunglasses.
Speaking about shooting her latest role, the star also opened up about what it was really like working with so many babies on set as she admitted there were 15 different babies in total.
‘I learnt on this shoot just to surrender because you’re at the mercy of the baby really.’
‘That’s the big lesson of parenthood’ joked Lauren, as Jodie teased: ‘Yeah whatever they want to do goes’.
‘They take very little direction and it created some really spontaneous and unexpected moments on set, but there’s some real beauty in that.’
Her latest role sees her star in the BAFTA nominated new film The End We Start From which sees Jodie play a young woman navigating motherhood for the first time during a terrifying apocalyptic flood (pictured in the film)
Jodie cut a chic appearance as she donned a simple beige jumper and denim jeans underneath a long black winter coat
Jodie explained she was meant to perform the Cell Block Tango from Chicago, but she went on holiday and was kicked out the group, meaning she performed a Hillsborough monologue instead
Explaining why so many babies were needed, Jodie said: ‘The film spans over a year so there are four very clear ages for the babies and then each age would have about three babies.
‘So there would be a hero baby for continuity reasons who would always be featured on camera. The baby would take a break every 20 minutes.
‘You can imagine the kind of scheduling that had to be met’.
Last Friday, Jodie appeared on The Graham Norton Show as she compared filming to a ‘baby bootcamp’.
Asked about acting with a baby in tow, she explained: ‘It is in every scene. We had 15 real babies in the film and the director gave me a baby doll to take home so I could understand the physicality of it.’
She joked: ‘It was like baby bootcamp.’
The film, which will be released in cinemas on January 24, follows Mother as she is forced to flee the London when an ecological disaster triggers apocalyptic levels of flooding.
Jodie completed her look with some chunky black boots and black sunglasses
The star also opened up about what it was really like working with a total of 15 babies on set: ‘I learnt on this shoot just to surrender because you’re at the mercy of the baby really’
Talking about the project she explained: ‘It’s about the first year of parenthood set in the middle of a climate crisis. Despite that there is a lot of levity and hope which was important to us all because it’s truthful to life.’
The trailer opens with Mother meeting love interest R at a bar before the disaster strikes with the pair debating if they should go on a date.
Mother quips ‘it could be a disaster’ as the trailer abruptly cuts to a flashforward of her standing in the sea after the disaster with her baby in her arms.
A montage shows Mother and O’s relationship developing but as just as it’s revealed the couple are expecting their first child together, a climate crisis starts to occur, with houses and buildings beginning to become inhabitable due to rising water.
Just as Mother gives birth the crisis comes to a head, with the whole of London forced to evacuate as water levels rise to the heights of drowning double decker buses.
Mother and her baby flee to the North but the trailer ends with her defiantly stating ‘I’m going home.’
