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There’s not much better than an awards ceremony – exulted triumph, applause, gowns, men in suits, sobbing disappointment, hysterical women stealing hateful glances at each other. Pure theatre. In celebration of the 2014 BAFTA’s, Wonderland has joined in blissful union with their official backstage photographer Jessie Craig to shoot who we imagine to be future award winners. Here they pose resplendent and explain, in bite-sized quote form, their dreams, loves, aspirations and ventures for the rest of 2014.

Wool polo neck by HACKETT

Harry Treadaway
“Coming up I’m playing Dr Frankenstein in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with Eva Green, Timothy Dalton and Josh Hartnett. Also, I star in a psychological thriller indie with Rose Leslie called Honeymoon, I’m writing and directing a short film and am shooting a photographic portrait project. Calm, then.”

Patterned dress by MARY KATRANTZOU

Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“Even though she’s hardly fictional, Cleopatra would be great to explore, as she’s reached an almost mythological status in history. Plus it would be interesting to discover the real woman beneath the image.”

Primary blue suit by PAUL SMITH and white cotton shirt by HACKETT

Max Irons
“I’ve spent too long thinking about what a musical of my life would sound like. Out of key probably.”

Teal jacket and matching shorts both by DIOR HOMME

Freddie Fox
“When I was a kid it was the big action epics: Die Hard, Beverly Hills Cop. As I got older: Withnail & I, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather, Glengarry Glen Ross. I have relatively eclectic taste, but there’s definitely a strong Al Pacino theme running through it.”

Textured jumper by HACKETT

Asa Butterfield
“In every film I do, I learn something new and I never know what the day will bring. Unless, of course I have to wake up at 5am, no one likes waking up at 5am…”

Nude silk dress by CHRISTOPHER KANE and charm bracelet by ASPREY LONDON

Kaya Scodelario
“I’m obsessed with the 60s and 70s music scene, so I would love to portray a character of that time. I love the fashion, music and youth movement of it all. My favourite band is The Rolling Stones and I’d love to play a young Keith Richards. Like most British actors, I’d love to be in a Bond film – but I want to be the one who finally kills Bond, and doesn’t sleep with him.”

Knitted jumper with suede elbow patches by HACKETT

Dominic Sherwood
“I used to love watching anything with superheroes and villains in. Mainly for the villains! I love the paradox of dark and light needing each other. I’m a big James Dean fan, so Rebel Without A Cause was another one that lit the fire in me. I also love Last Of the Mohicans – from the performances to the tragedy and beauty of the story. But who doesn’t look up to Daniel Day Lewis?”

Photographer Jessie Craig
Fashion Editor Francesca Turner
Words Jack Sunnucks
Hair Max, Harry, Kaya, Gugu, Dominic and Asa all by David Wadlow at Premier Hair and Make up and Freddie by Louis Byrne at The London Style Agency both using CHARLES WORTHINGTON
Makeup Max, Harry, Asa and Gugu all by Nathalie Eleni and Kaya, Dominic and Freddie all by Riona O’Sullivan both using LANCÔME
Fashion Assistance Francesca Hope
Production Seona-Taylor Bell
Thanks Amy Elton, Janette Dalley, Emma Allen and Charlotte Faith
Special thanks to BAFTA partners LANCÔME, CHARLES WORTHINGTON, ASPREY LONDON, 88 RUE DU RHÔNE, HACKETT, the BRITISH FASHION COUNCIL and THE SAVOY

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In celebration of the 2014 BAFTA’s, Wonderland has joined in blissful union with their official backstage photographer Jessie Craig to shoot who we imagine to be future award winners including Rupert Grint, Harry Treadaway and Kaya Scodelario.
The BAFTA’s will air on BBC1 at 9pm. Check out the full feature in the latest issue of Wonderland magazine out now!!!

Film by Kiel deValera
Fashion by Francesca Turner

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This interview first appeared in Issue 31 of Wonderland, Sept/Oct 2012

While most of her contemporaries were filling out their UCAS forms – yawn – Kaya Scodelario was studying at her own division of the university of life – aka the set of Skins. Not content with stealing the hearts of half of teendom playing that show’s most memorable bad girl, she’s fast becoming one of the UK’s most promising young actors, taking her talent for trouble to the big screen, where she undoubtedly belongs.

Playing tween femme fatale Effy in Skins, Kaya Scodelario seemed wise and wicked beyond her fourteen years. Later, in Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights (2011), she smoldered her way through one of the most heartbreaking dramas in literary history with impressive gravitas, given that at that point she was only just old enough to get into a nightclub. In the flesh, at 20, however, Scodelario feels somehow more youthful than she does onscreen. She’s tomboyish, open, chatty – and unlike many actors has no apparent wish to control her image: what you see is what you get.

Scodelario’s difference to her screen personas is a testament [to the talent of the London-born star, who joins fellow precocious talent Dakota Fanning this September in Now Is Good, playing feisty best friend to Fanning’s spirited young cancer sufferer Tessa. Scodelario’s rebellious, impetuous Zoey encourages Tessa to live her short life to the full, having sex and taking drugs. It’s another “troubled” role for the star. “I seem to be drawn to that sort of stuff,” she tells us. “I think directors think I’m a bit fucked up!”

Scodelario’s exotic looks come from her Brazilian mother and English father, who left when she was one year old and died in 2010. After growing up in a council house with her mother in London, the actress now lives in Manchester, home to boyfriend Elliott Tittensor (Shameless) and regularly visits family in both Brighton and Brazil.

As anyone who’s seen Kaya’s frank Twitter feed will guess, she’s something of an interviewer’s dream, sharing her honest thoughts on everything from her relationship with Tittensor to snogging Billie Piper in True Love. Wonderland has never before been the bearer of a celebrity marriage proposal, but there’s always a first time for everything, right?

Is it fair to say you grew up on screen?

Skins was like our University experience. It was fun and crazy and dramatic and terrible but I wouldn’t swap it for anything. They wanted us to be real kids going through those things. Everyone was falling in love for the first time or having their heart broken or having family problems or leaving home. It was a way of understanding all the shit going on in our lives. We were like, ‘It’ll be OK in the end, ‘cos in the end of this episode, it’s fine!” And Effy holds a special place in my heart. She’s coming back, we are doing a final episode next year.

It must have been a contrast working with Dakota Fanning on Now Is Good…

Dakota is probably the most professional person I’ve ever worked with. She knows all her lines, she’s there on time every day and she’s fully prepared. I really respect that but I really need the social side as well. I think I’d go crazy if I was working constantly. But filming Now Is Good was a great experience. I got to wear some really cool outfits and run around Brighton, one of my favourite places in the world. All my family live on the South Coast so they got to come down and watch me film. My Nan is in the back of shot. We’re on the pier and she’s behind, hobbling along!

And you’ve just filmed Paul Abbott’s thriller Twenty8k…

Yes, I like Paul a lot and I got to work with someone I really admire which is Kierston Wareing. The way she can be so dramatic and put herself in such a depressing state and really break herself down, I think that’s really brave and seems to be something she can do really easily.

Is that something you feel you can do?

Yeah, I try to get into the head of the character. If I’m on screen or in a character I find it a lot easier to cry than I would in real life. I was the shyest person ever in school but the one thing that I would always put my hands up for was acting things. It was never about showing off but it just felt comfortable whereas social situations didn’t.

Did you feel comfortable filming in LA for Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes with Jessica Biel?

LA is crazy. You get there and think, wow, England’s tiny, our industry is so small compared to theirs. It was great, I got to learn to do an American accent. Jessie was gorgeous and she’s engaged to Justin Timberlake – when I was 10 years’ old he was my life! I was freaking out the moment I saw her.

Did you get to meet Justin?

I went to his house for his birthday! It was incredible but just one of those moments where I needed to ring someone and say, “AAAARGH! Guess where I am right now?” Yeah I rang everyone. I rang my Mum.

When you’re not working, what’s a typical day for you?

God, I’m so lazy! We live in Heywood in Manchester where there isn’t a thing to do. Farmland. I live with my boyfriend, his twin brother and two of his friends so it’s a very male house, I get on better with boys than girls. We’re very chilled. We play Mario Kart, we go sit on a field to have a drink and talk. I love to cook, it’s how I connect with my Brazilian roots. Elliott bought me a pressure cooker recently which I’m really excited about but also really freaked out by. If he gets me a Hoover for Christmas I’ll kill him!

You’re a fan of music festivals, aren’t you?

I love festivals. I love the idea of being in a crowd, feeling like everyone’s watching the same thing, feeling the same thing. I went to Glastonbury when I was 16 and it was like a religious experience. I can’t remember most of it but I know it was really, really good. I love live music, I’d much rather go to a pub to see a live band than a club.

Are you feeling a bit clubbed out?

Yeah definitely. We did a lot in Bristol before we were even legally allowed to! The clubs in Bristol were amazing. There was a drum’n’bass club and they never ID’d anyone which is why we all went. It was a complete shithole but we all loved it, it became a tradition for the Skins cast and crew at the end of the week we’d all go down there, fill up the place and dance ‘til 6am.

When you’re out and about, do you get approached by fans?

When Skins was on TV, a lot more. I think the boys had it worse, boys don’t like boys that are successful. They can be really violent. But [with] the lesbian storyline with Lily [Loveless] and Kat [Prescott], they had so many young girls come up to them and say because of them they had the courage to come out. You look at things like that and that’s gotta outweigh all the negative stuff by a mile.

Which neatly brings us to your lesbian role in TV’s True Love with Billie Piper…

Ah, yes, well done! I planned that. It was all improvised, there’s no script. You hear about me and Billie’s storyline and think, “Oh, lesbians,” but it’s not about that, it’s about the connection of two people. Yes there’s an age difference, yes they’re the same sex but you don’t focus on that. It was me wanting to push myself, having to tell my Nan that I was playing a lesbian. She was actually really cool about it. I was like, “Go on Nan!”

How was it with Billie?

it was weird the first day because the first album I bought was hers, when I was about 10 years old! But she’s a beautiful woman obviously so it isn’t difficult to have to understand why someone would fancy her. She’s very intelligent, knows the industry really well and was good for advice.

OK quick quiz time. Where do you think you will be in ten years?

I’d like to be able to get my Mum a nice house, she lives in council flat right now. And I’d like to be married. [Dramatically] Elliott Tittensor: Marry me!

As an actress, do you ever feel your looks can work against you as well as for you?

I’ve never thought of myself as the pretty girl. There are lot of actresses who will only go up for parts where they have to look pretty. I would happily shave my head for a role, I’d happily burn my face if I had to. I’ve never been a girly girl. I’m not delicate in any way.

How would you describe your style?

Camden Market is my shrine of fashion, I like mixing and matching. I love being from London. You walk around Soho and you’ll see ten different looks, someone wearing a binbag but they still look cool. I dyed my hair purple last week and got a bollocking, my agent nearly killed me!

Denim or leather?

Leather.

Acting or Modelling?

Acting, definitely 100%.

Britain or Brazil?

Oh you can’t do that! Oh no! Brazil. There’s a beautiful energy, music, life good food, good conversation, being on a beach… and the weather!

An Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or EastEnders?

ARRGH!! This is horrible! [squeals]. Arnie. I love him so much. I turn into a six year old every time I think of him. He made me want to get into films.

Do you fancy him?

No – in True Lies he looked hot. I would have then. But not now! No no no no no.

Ever met him?

No. I would actually die. I don’t like thinking about it now, I get excited. I found out he was following me on Twitter and I screamed the house down. Elliott was like, “Who died? What’s happened? “I was like, “Arnie’s folllowing me!”. I was crying and everything, I’m so obsessed.

Did you message him?

Yes. I said, “I love you.” I think I just kept it at that, nice and simple.

Did he reply?

No.

Words: Anna Smith

Images: Mark Kean

Fashion: Julia Sarr-Jamois

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Friday was the last day for us at this year’s Sundance Film festival, so before we get all sentimental and clingy we should probably talk about the movies you should (and one you shouldn’t) keep an eye on when they come out on general or limited release.

Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes has the worst name of any film at this year’s festival. By far. It’s also the worst film we’ve seen this week. By far. Kaya Scodelario plays Emanuel, a moody teenage girl seemingly at odds with the world, who uncovers a sinister secret about her new neighbour that gradually consumes her life. It’s hard to know where to start with this one. The dialogue is appalling, the visuals are empty and overblown, the music is clichéd and the entire thing hangs by such a thin thread that it totally falls apart by the half way point. Quite frankly, it’s a disaster, and you’d do very well to avoid it.

That’s that out the way. Now onto the good stuff. American comedian Mike Birbiglia’s debut film, Sleepwalk With Me, a semi-autobiographical comedy drama about a man trying to kick off a career as a comedian while fighting struggling to save his relationship, is certainly an improvement on the last one. A neurotic, awkward comedy about a man watching as the woman he loves fade out of his life screams Woody Allen, and it’s hard to escape the comparison, but on its own terms Sleepwalk With Me is a very witty, surprisingly dark little movie, and one of the funniest we’ve seen all week.

A.C.O.D., directed by Stu Zicherman and starring Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clarke Duke and Amy Poehler, stands for Adult Child of Divorce, a title belonging to Carter, a restaurateur who is forced to reconcile his warring parents for the sake of his brother’s wedding. In spite of the amazing cast, nothing about A.C.O.D. only has one or two standout moments, and the rest never seems to take off. It’s indie by numbers, and it really should’ve been a lot better.

Finally, Mud, a film that played in competition at last year’s Cannes film festival, so you kinda know what level of quality we’re dealing with here. Starring Matthew McConaughey as a mysterious fugitive who enlists the help of two young boys to reunite him with his girlfriend, Mud might just be the best film at Sundance so far. Jeff Nichols’ masterful direction is reminiscent of Spielberg in his pomp, the performances are universally brilliant and the story is absolutely riveting from start to finish. A seriously strong way to finish our week at the O2.

See y’all next year!

Words: Matt Mansfield (Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmansfield_)

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(1) Special K: Kaya Scodelario for Wonderland

Featuring Kaya Scodelario, dressed in Dolce & Gabbana. Styled by Julia Sarr-Jamois and photographed by Mark Kean.

(2) The In Crowd: Young Hollywood

Featuring Ambyr Childers, Chris Zylka, Haley Bennett (seated), Analeigh Tipton, Shiloh Fernandez, Brie Larson and Tyler Posey (all wearing Prada) as the next big things of Tinseltown. Styled by Grace Cobb and photographed by Bjarne Jonasson.

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