“‘Have you ever thought about acting?’ Funny you should say that, I have actually,” she says. How else do you explain an Oxford anthropology and archeology graduate taking a punt and trying for the lead role in a Star Wars movie? An agent had already approached her after doing a couple of plays at university. It’s not luck, rather a flair for playing a great hand with whatever she’s been dealt. Richardson-Sellers has a knack for attracting good fortune. It terrified me, but it’s also exciting’: as Kathy in The Undeclared War. In conversation, though, she has the quiet confidence of someone who knows they can ace the test, even if they don’t know the questions yet, and her black turtle-neck top and long braided hair gives her the fortified coolness of a gallery curator. She plays tech analyst Kathy, both tightly wound and smart enough to downplay her own shyness. She’s currently on screen in the cyberwarfare drama The Undeclared War, written by Peter Kosminsky, who directed Wolf Hall. Richardson-Sellers (who uses both she and they pronouns) is calling from Miami, during a brief period of downtime while filming a “queer psychological thriller” about gaslighting and emotional abuse. Every now and then Richardson-Sellers would be whisked high into the sky, to bear witness to the city she grew up in from dazzling new heights. “I’d try my luck and ask for a ride,” the actor says. Sometimes, when people failed to show up, she would ask if she could replace them in the helicopter. She would hand out flyers and take official photos when couples got engaged on the trips. Before the 30-year-old made her first ever on-screen appearance, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, no less, and before starring in megawatt franchises like Netflix’s The Kissing Booth and Legends of Tomorrow, she worked odd jobs, including for a London helicopter tour company. M aisie Richardson-Sellers has often taken a leap of faith, and it’s nearly always paid off.
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