Soz if I'm not getting back to you guys,
it's 'cause I'm ignoring my phone.
I'm really excited to talk to you because I'm only seventeen.
- Oh my god! - This is your first interview?
Yeah, I'm just over from Ireland.
- Congratulations! - Where's the champagne?
- Only joking. - No, no, no.
Unfortunately, I'm going to start with something very corny,
a bad elf joke.
Why do elves make such good listeners?
Oh, I don't know.
Because they're all ears.
(both) Wahey!
- We'll move back onto the questions. - Excellent, that is brilliant.
So there's obviously initially a bit of a Grinch vibe
around your character Kate.
She's very soppy, she's not having a great time, a bit heartless.
But as well as that, I found myself needing tissues a lot,
but I also found myself laughing the whole way through the film.
- Oh, this is the nicest review.
(laughter)
Especially around you and Emma's scene in the doctor's office,
I really liked that. - Yes, yeah.
Is there any moment on set where you found yourself laughing loads?
Oh yeah, yeah. Me and Emma did that pretty much every single scene.
It got a little bit silly,
'cause sometimes you'd be laughing so hard on set,
and the crew in the beginning are laughing along with you,
and then after a while, they're like, 'It's not funny, it's not funny.'
And then that gets to the point that makes me and Emma laugh even more,
and it got to the point in one scene where she asked
to replace me with a cushion so that she didn't have to-,
- That's not a compliment. - You know what I mean, yeah!
I watched the blooper reel of it the other day
and I was just wetting myself laughing.
I couldn't get over how badly we couldn't do it.
- You never want to be a pillow. - No, exactly.
There's also a great message in the film about putting your phone away
and obviously, as a teenager, I find that very hard.
- Of course. - As a human.
(laughter) As a human, yeah.
But is there a circumstance recently where you've found yourself
putting your phone away, and what did you do instead?
Yeah, I do it a lot.
- I've made rules in my life. - Me too.
Whenever I'm at dinner or breakfast or eating,
- We're old, though, you see. - the phone goes away.
It's definitely not allowed on the table.
- That's a very good rule. - It never comes out,
we're never allowed to check it, and then you have that moment
where you can connect with people, and that's what we're resisting
or we're not finding ourselves doing.
I've turned off all of my notifications,
so unless someone calls and I have it on loud
then I won't know until I choose to open my messages
or I choose to open my WhatsApp or my email or whatever it is.
- Not even on vibrate. - Wow.
Soz if I'm not getting back to you guys,
it's 'cause I'm ignoring my phone.
But then it means that I get to read my book
and I get to talk to my friends,
and I get to sit in front of a TV episode or whatever it is.
And then when I'm like, 'Oh, I forgot, maybe I should check,'
and then check it when I'm ready.
You get so many more hours in the day when you put away your phone,
so many more things you can get done. - Completely, yeah.
Obviously in the film, you reference Frozen, and you talk about
the storyline of Frozen as if it's something everybody should know.
I'm a massive Frozen fan. I'm always Team Elsa.
I have a little cousin called Elsa with blonde hair and blue eyes,
so it really runs in the family.
If I was to ask you Team Anna or Team Elsa, what would you be?
I just really, genuinely liked them both.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I don't know, Elsa for me. - Yeah, I really did.
Do I have to say Anna just to mix it up?
Yeah, go on.
I know that my little cousins like being Elsa quite a lot,
but then the older one's Anna.
She gets the whole dress and the powers.
I know, but Anna's just so earnest.
- Yeah. - Oh god, that says so much about-,
- Boring. - Whatever!
When you watch it back, you see that Anna's the one
who stirs the whole storyline along, though.
- She changes it for everyone. - Troublemaker, isn't she?
Exactly, I'd go Anna.
She's a bit more like the literary-,
(posh accent) literary heroines I liked when I was a child.
She's a reader.
You must have gotten quite close to your co-stars
in all the stuff you've worked on.
Other than you, some of my favourite co-stars that you've worked with
are obviously Sam Catlin and Awkwafina.
Oh, yeah.
If I was to buy them a Christmas present, what would it be and why?
Nora, Awkwafina, lives in LA,
and in LA, you're allowed to buy weed.
Wahey!
- She loves a bong.
(laughter)
Sam, he's a football nut, so something football-related, I think.
That, or he's got babies, something lovely for his babies.
Thank you so much for your time.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations on your first interview.
I'm glad I could interview you, thank you.