An hour in the company of Kaya Scodelario is enough to convince you that the clichéd train-wreck child star of old is extinct. Ten years ago, if you were meeting an actress who, like Scodelario, had been famous since she was 14, you could expect to find a version of, well, the character that shot her to fame in the E4 cult series Skins: tortured, recalcitrant, spliff-smoking Effy Stonem. Now, I’m ushered into an air-conditioned hotel suite to meet a delicate-looking 25-year-old, who is sitting quietly, legs crossed, with her husband and sleeping baby in a room next door. Forget stumbling out of clubs; this child star has mellowed into a modern earth mother, Instagramming breastfeeding pictures and marching in rallies with her baby tucked
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Kaya Scodelario: ‘I feel really confident with who I am now’
As a teenage actress, her breakout role was in the cult TV show Skins. Now she’s a twentysomething mother starring in the new Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster. Louisa McGillicuddy meets a very grown-up Kaya
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