Before, I’d go for these auditions with an older guy and they’d go, nope, this looks like actual paedophilia.” He’s a computer whiz-kid – he probably hacked in.”Įven so, Temple isn’t a household name, which might be about to change now that, as she puts it, “I’ve finally hit puberty on camera! I’m playing 22 nowadays. I was like,” she does a lucky gasp, “oh, you still remember me! But I also think my little brother rigged it, by telling everyone at his school to vote for his sister. A boarding school girl (the St Trinian’s comedies), or a wild child with crazy hair ( Linda Lovelace’s best friend), or an English rose with dewy pink cheeks and bags of sexuality waiting to come out.īafta gave Temple its Rising Star award in 2013, “which was so nice to get, because it was from England.
Since then, she has lived in LA for seven years and acted in more films than seems possible, usually playing someone far younger than her real age. I say girl, but Juno Temple is 26 and has been earning her own money since she was a teenager living in Somerset: playing Cate Blanchett’s daughter in Notes On A Scandal, and Lola, the child who is raped by Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in Atonement (and later marries him). “God,” she says, seeing my fascination at these cutlery improv situations, “you’re never going to let me live forks down, are you?” I can’t remember what film I was shooting, but I was staying in a hotel in London – and the fork worked! I felt like Ariel,” she adds, wistfully, meaning the Disney mermaid. I once used a fork to comb my hair,” Temple says, “because there was a time when I didn’t own a hairbrush. I was really getting my Baloo the bear on.” A fork? “Well, a plastic one – I wasn’t aiming for actual bloodshed.
“And there’s one bite on my back that is so bad, I had to scratch it with a fork to reach it. She orders an almond milk latte, and apologises in advance for any strange scratching that may occur, because she was bitten by mosquitoes during the night. Juno Temple sits down in a Los Angeles coffee shop, a bundle of energy in a comfy tracksuit, headphones around her neck and waves of blond hair piled on her head like a pineapple.
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