From fronting Bridgerton to starring in a finance psychodrama, Hollywood’s new English muse Phoebe Dynevor is dominating our screens – but she’s concerned with the lack of roles for young women

What evenwas that?!” Phoebe Dynevor is laughing, still incredulous four years after her turn as Daphne Bridgerton thrust her headfirst into turbo fame. “I bumped into Regé [-Jean Page] on the red carpet the other day and we were both like, ‘But seriously what was that!?’ I’m still just coming down from it. Shooting season one of Bridgerton was probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my life.”

Today she is a long way from the Ton, Zooming me from the wealthy Hollywood Hills enclave of Brentwood, LA. She has dialled in to talk about how she traded her Bridgerton bustles for a something altogether more suited and booted as Emily, the lead protagonist in the erotic finance industry thriller, Fair Play.

The film is set in the corporate offices of One Crest, a New York-based hedge fund, and Dynevor plays a twentysomething professional navigating the cutthroat world of money, sex and Gordon Gekko wannabes.

We meet Emily and boyfriend Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) in the bathroom of a wedding party where the couple have slipped away for a shag in the toilets. He is on his knees, and rises from the tiled floor with blood all over his mouth. The scene portrays Luke as a modern man, one who baulks neither at menses nor kneeling at the feet of a woman, yet when girlfriend Emily gets promoted over him at their place of work, juicy themes of male narcissism and misogyny rear up.

“He’s not hiding any of the murky bits of being a man, he really puts it out there,” says Dynevor of co-star Ehrenreich’s performance. “I remember watching him, and having to try and stay in the scene, because his performance was so nuanced, and really a thrill to watch.”

Emily was a role that Dynevor says she begged director Chloe Domont to let her play – but there was no need to. “When I met Phoebe for the first time, I had this immediate gut reaction that she was my Emily,” says Domont. “From her talent in previous work to our conversations about the character, and, most importantly, her excitement to go on this psychotic rollercoaster of a story gave me complete confidence.”
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Born in Greater Manchester, Phoebe Dynevor, 28, landed a role in the BBC drama Waterloo Road in 2009, at the age of 14. She appeared in period dramas The Village (2014) and Dickensian (2015) before being cast in the American series Younger and moving to the US. She returned to the UK to play the female lead in Bridgerton. Her films include The Colour Room, Bank of Dave and Fair Play. Her next project is the upcoming spy thriller Inheritance, and she is one of Bafta’s EE rising star nominees for 2024. She lives in London.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My mum [the actor, Sally Dynevor] in so many ways. She is the real definition of a superwoman to me.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.

What was your most embarrassing moment?
When I was 17, my friends and I threw a fashion show for a breast cancer charity. Breast cancer is something my mum went through when I was 14, so prevention is very close to my heart. Our singer, who was performing during the fashion show, dropped out at the last minute so I had to step in. It’s on video, and my sister always brings it up.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.

If not yourself, who would you most like to be?
Taylor Swift.

What is your most treasured possession?
I have a little drawing that my grandma, my dad’s mum, drew of me. She passed away last year and it’s on my bedside table. She was an actor and then later in life she painted, so I have lots of lovely watercolours of hers in my house, which I treasure.
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