As fresh as Daisy
creators of reality TV show Big Brother, who kept her grounded when overnight fame hit.
She says: “He’s been just the best because when Big Brother was at the top of its game, when you went in you were guaranteed to lose your anonymity. So my dad has always been very good.
“He’d always say, ‘People around you might change, but you never will – you’ll still be you.
“It might feel very strange that people assume they know you or you seem aloof to them... never, ever believe your own hype, you have to keep your feet on the ground and your head screwed on. And never get too big for your boots’.
“It’s been very useful because I’d never want to be like that.” Daisy was a shy seven-year-old when she got the acting bug. A teacher cast her as Anne Boleyn in a play about Henry VIII – done in the style of US talk show host Jerry Springer.
Daisy recalls: “I walked in with a fake head under my arm, and I was all angry that he chopped my head off.
“I remember being really sort of sassy, and really angry, and being like, ‘Can’t believe you did this!’
NERVOUS
“It was very different from me. That was when I first had that experience of enjoying and really inhabiting a character. As a seven-year-old Anne Boleyn.”
Daisy joined the National Youth Theatre aged 14 and roles in TV’s Outnumbered and Silent Witness followed. Her Cold Feet debut came when she was 17 and the Manchesterbased show, starring James Nesbitt, was Daisy’s first big test.
And she was so nervous that she almost forgot how to walk. She recalls: “I remember my first job was Cold Feet and I really had such a small part. One of the first scenes I ever had to do was just, like, walking somewhere.
“And I remember being so selfconscious and being so aware of, ‘I want to act like I’m walking. I want to look like I’m walking.’
“At least I’ve done it for long enough now that I can confidently walk somewhere and not be terribly selfconscious!”
Daisy split from Ackley Bridge actor Tom Varey in 2021.
There is no word of a new fella on the horizon just yet.
Joking about her dating deal-breakers, she says: “If they don’t ask any questions. Or if you don’t reply to a message straight away and they say you were online! I also have a little hang-up about indoor scarves.”
When she’s not busy acting, Daisy loves to wind down by watching TV, particularly Strictly Come Dancing.
She says she wouldn’t rule out appearing on the BBC dance show – and did have several dance scenes in Fresh. But she admits: “You can probably see from the film, I’m not a massively brilliant dancer.
“I do have rhythm, so maybe.
“I’d love to learn how to do the jive.”
As her year goes from strength to strength, Daisy says acting under a female producer and director on Crawdads had set her thinking. “Maybe I could direct one day too,” she says.
At this rate, Daisy, it’s a given.
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