It’s set in New London, a supposedly utopian, but actually very sinister, future where love, monogamy, money and privacy have all been eradicated. She’s appearing in a reworked version of Aldous Huxley’s classic 1932 novel Brave New World. Appropriately, it’s a project about a world gone completely mad. We’re speaking to discuss the last role she banked before coronavirus put everything on pause. “I’m just dying to get back on set and get back to it,” she says. On the day we speak, she’s squeezed in our call around costume fittings for an unannounced new project (we’re forbidden from revealing what it is, but it’s rumours that John-Kamen will play the lead in a Resident Evil reboot). “I’m lucky in how the experience I’ve gained has only got bigger and bigger with each project.” Successful as she is, she’s still just getting started. “I’m so happy and so, so lucky,” says John-Kamen. It is all, it’s fair to say, going rather well. On TV, she’s clocked up two Black Mirror episodes, Game of Thrones and the lead in Netflix hit The Stranger. She’s been in the biggest sci-fi franchise in history ( Star Wars: The Force Awakens) a high profile reboot ( Tomb Raider) a Steven Spielberg blockbuster ( Ready Player One) and a Marvel movie ( Ant-Man and the Wasp). She’s only had four movie roles so far, but there’s not a single small project among them. John-Kamen is one of those actors whose name you might not know, but you definitely know her face. For the past few years, John-Kamen’s life has been on such a roll, it seems silly to let a little global pandemic slow her down. She would, she says, “Just do it up and down my kitchen.” As lockdown skills go, getting proficient at wheeling up and down seems a fairly useless one, but it makes a kind of sense. Not outside, because outside wasn’t allowed. Hannah John-Kamen put her solitary hours into learning to skateboard. Others, in probably larger number, tried to complete every show on Netflix and made biscuits a primary food group. Some turned immensely practical, in very old fashioned ways – baking bread, really getting into gardening, learning to sew. Everybody had different approaches to lockdown (or first lockdown as it may come to be known).
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