A biography for Kaya Scodelariohasn’t been written yet.
“'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.”
“I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.”
“Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.”
“I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.”
“'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.”
“I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that.”
“I'm not the best auditioner.”
“We should just be good humans.”
“I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.”
“A lot of my friends back home are boys, so I do well with boys I like.”
“The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.”
“We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.”
“Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.”
“My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.”
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.”
“Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.”
“At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.”
“'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.”
“It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.”
“I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise.”