- Millie,
I will be very, very, very impressed
if you can spell my character's full name,
you know, I want the full title.
Go on.
- V-I-S-C-
O-U-
N-T
- Yeah.
- T-E-W-
K-S-
B-U-R-Y
M-A-R-Q-U-E-S-S
O-F
B-A-S-I-L-W-E
- Ooh!
[imitates buzzer]
- No. What are you on about?
Write it down. I got that right.
- I'm writing it down.
- T-H-E-R.
Viscount Tewksbury Marquess of Basilwether.
Did I get it right?
- I think I was wrong. I think you were right.
[laughing]
- Louis Partridge.
- Millie.
- I have a question for you.
- Okay, I'll get myself ready.
- How would you describe
Enola and Tewksbury's friendship relationship?
[laughing]
- A friendship relationship?
I would describe it as an evolving...
Cause when we first meet them, they're quite, you know,
they don't really like each other, so it evolves.
An evolving, loving, warm, open,
trusting, and like, supporting relationship.
- Obviously Lord Tewksbury
is escaping his family's traditions
and he is a new thinker.
What would you say to people out there that are, you know,
going through a similar journey as Tewksbury?
- The easiest option is
to do what everybody else wants you to do,
which is what Tewksbury probably would have done
without having met Enola.
But I think you've gotta choose the path,
that's right for you.
You know, you've gotta take a risk,
and you've gotta be sure enough in yourself.
And you've got to trust that things will,
things will be right.
And, you know, you've got to go with your gut,
- Yeah, follow your heart.
as opposed to what other people want you to believe.
You know, you've gotta do you.
Why was it important for you to bring Enola to life,
and what aspects of her personality do you want to portray?
- I never had an Enola growing up.
I really wanted to be inspired by a female British lead.
And this was the perfect character for me
to look up to and portray.
There are certain qualities to Enola that in the book,
that I was very inspired by and wanted to portray on screen,
like her bravery, her will to be vulnerable,
her humor, her wit,
her British banter,
and the love that she has for her mother.
And so we really went from the book to the script
to then on screen, and those kinds of similar traits
carried through to the screen.
- You even go as far as to break the fourth wall,
why was it important for you to talk to the audience?
- It was important because with this film,
it felt like it was only right to have the audience
come on this journey with Enola and grow with her.
And so for me, it was actually
a very exciting kind of decision that we got to make.
It's also something I've never done before,
so it was a bit of a challenge,
but it's also not been done before,
like the way we've done it.
So it's also different,
and it brings a different perspective
into Hollywood's movies.
- I agree, well said. I could even add the quote,
"You've got to make some noise if you want to be heard,"
which is a personal favorite of mine.
Yeah, but Millie,
what made you find your voice as a young actor?
- I've always admired actors,
specifically female actors,
that have gotten into the activism,
you know, realm, such as Angelina Jolie.
She works very closely with the UN,
and I've always really admired her work
with certain charities and her activist role
has been always as admirable as her acting work.
So I've always enjoyed watching female actors do that.
I also love Audrey Hepburn and her work with UNICEF.
So I've always really wanted to find my voice.
I also wanted to find something
that I felt like I could connect with.
So I've worked with UNICEF for a few years,
and obviously I'm really grateful
that I'm an ambassador now,
so I can fully throw myself into working with them directly
on helping to fight for children's rights.
You know, there are specific things like,
you know, young people,
young girls, having the same education as young boys.
You know, helping people in places
that have conflict and have poverty.
I personally,
you know, have never,
fortunately never had to go through that.
So, you know, for me to have my education,
I should be an educated human being and try and help
the people that deserve an education as well.
So yeah, I've found my voice in that respect,
and I think everyone can find their voice
once they search for something that they can relate to.
After filming this, or maybe even before,
did you have a voice?
Did you feel like you had anything
that you were passionate about
or something that you wanted to speak up about?
You know, are you interested in any of that, or no?
[laughing]
A very brilliant way to ask a question.
- I mean,
yes, I suppose
everybody has things that they personally care about,
but I think...
I'm yet to...
- Discover?
- Yeah. It definitely, I'm still learning.
I'm still pretty young,
and I'm still learning,
you know, and discovering that, definitely.
So I think...
- That's a prime example of the film.
You know, we touch on young people finding themselves.
And this is a, you know,
this is a case of, you know,
everyone's finding themselves,
I haven't fully found myself,
and I'm sure there's gonna be, in years to come,
things that I care about that are different to now,
as well as you.
So, you know, we're growing up,
and we're seeing where this path takes us.