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November 11, 2021,
As an actress, to become an intriguing case study, you have to study a slew of cases.
Case studies of off the beaten path subjects.
Case studies of IFC After Dark characters.
Then, as an actress, you become a fascinating one yourself.
Case study, that is.
That describes the career of Kaya Scodelario.
If her resume was comprised primarily of her blockbuster film accomplishments, we would be less captivated. It would come across from a distant shore that the motivation is about fame and money. Primarily, possibly exclusively.
Saturday afternoon watching with little else to do. Yawn.
It is the other films on her profile that compelled curiosity because of the, at times, obscure and intense subject matter.
Kaya Scodelario is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Effy Stonem on the E4 teen drama Skins (2007–2010, 2013), and Teresa in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018).
Her other parts include Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold‘s Wuthering Heights (2011), Carina Smyth in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Carol Ann Boone in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Haley Keller in Crawl (2019), and troubled figure skater Katarina Baker in the Netflix original series Spinning Out (2020).
Let us ask you a question and please be completely honest with your answer.
Have you ever seen an actress in an unimpressive blockbuster budget horror film, enjoyed the movie moderately so because it was very formulaic and then forgot the young actress in it?
Coming into it, you had low expectations because you’ve seen these type of B movie horror-thriller films grinded out ad nauseam. They are somewhat entertaining while you are sitting there and would shock you if they actually took a risk and tried to be unique and creative.
Hey, it was a rainy Saturday afternoon when you had nothing better to do and just wanted to relax and be distracted before Monday comes and you are back in the work grind.
Then later you read or hear something about the beautiful young actress involved and you make a decision to watch her in another work, become surprised and fascinated by her performance and now you have to raid her inventory and virtually watch everything. Especially the Indies and weird and strange films off the beaten path. IFC after dark siblings.
That is what happened to us with Kaya.
We first saw her in Crawl, on a Saturday afternoon with nothing better to do but take a break and watch a standard thriller. Look, it is either Crawl or some Lifetime Movie flavorless ice cream. Sweet and tasty but no unique storyline. And look, that is not a knock on Lifetime Movies (yes it is). We have watched a ton of them. Truly.
On a Saturday afternoon or at 2am.
Crawl is a 2019 American natural horror film directed by Alexandre Aja from a screenplay written by brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. Produced by Sam Raimi, the plot follows Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father who, along with their dog, are hunted by alligators after being trapped in their home during a Category 5 hurricane in Florida.
Alligators as hunters. Okay. It is Saturday afternoon.
Aren’t alligators supposed to be lazy and just lie there hidden away in the marsh and only attack if you walk by and accidentally step on top of their head?
Well, these alligators have apparently watched a lot of television on Saturday afternoons and based upon formulaic thrillers it has infuriated them at the people who made them and now they want to hunt and kill all people who watch those B movies.
Even the ones who don’t step on their heads.
Apparently that is why they are hunting daddy and daughter here.
We won’t go into the plot line because, after all, you’ve seen a movie like this a thousand times on lazy Saturday afternoons.
It was Kaya that elevated this to another level.
We loved her, but didn’t know who she was.
Then we quickly forgot her.
How did we rediscover her?
It is our job to Google hot young actresses because we know our readers like looking at them first and then maybe wanting to watch their movie later.
Maybe.
So when we were scanning pictures of these beautiful young women, Kaya’s elegant and exotic looks really stood out.
Who is she?
What have we seen her in?
Crawl for crying out loud!
That was her? You’ve got to be kidding. We remember the young woman was cute and even out starred the main alligator, who wasn’t lazy, but wow, how gorgeous.
Okay, what else has she done?
The Maze Runner series didn’t and still doesn’t intrigue us. We feel we’ve seen a ton of vehicles like this before where a Hollywood Think Tank and Focus Group decide to find good looking young actors first and write some formulaic action movie or series to fit around them.
Oh, like Pirates of the Caribbean. If we wanted to spend an afternoon with cookie cutter pirates we would just go to Disneyland.
Not interested.
To our surprise, at only 29, Kaya has starred in some off the beaten paths gems that we now have to watch. Seriously. We are going to. The weirder, stranger and darker the movie, the more we are intrigued.
Why? Because they come across as real life. Civilizations are in trouble for a reason. They are not in trouble because people have wonderful marriages, a five bedroom, two story house in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a very friendly dog.
What type of Kaya projects are we determined to view?
Those like Extremely Wicked, Tiger House, The Truth About Emanuel, Shank (not skank), The Pale Horse and Skins.
Yes, this beauty does have quite a resume.
What is perhaps driving her?
Ms. Scodelario was born Kaya Rose Humphrey in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England.
Her mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian from Itu, São Paulo, who moved to England in 1990.
Scodelario’s surname comes from her mother’s Italian grandfather. Her father, Roger Humphrey, was British and died in November 2010.
Her parents divorced when she was a child and she was brought up in London by her mother, subsequently adopting her surname and becoming fluent in Portuguese.
Her mother suffered clinical depression when she was 16.
What is clinical depression exactly?
According to the knowledgeable team at mayoclinic.org, “Depression ranges in seriousness from mild, temporary episodes of sadness to severe, persistent depression. Clinical depression is the more-severe form of depression, also known as major depression or major depressive disorder. It isn’t the same as depression caused by a loss, such as the death of a loved one, or a medical condition, such as a thyroid disorder.”
We think we understand. And sympathize.
Kaya said that she moved out after not knowing what to do and say.
Not a five bedroom home in the suburbs storyline.
That is quite a story. Not typical. Not a storyline you would watch on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do.
As the expression goes, everyone has got a story. Some to be watched on a Saturday afternoon with little else to do.
Most probably not as intriguing and off the beaten path as Kaya’s.
She is absolutely must watch TV.
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