Although it was The King’s Speech that took home the People’s Choice Trophy this year, The First Grader was picked as runner up- which certainly isn’t anything to sneeze at!
With the Toronto International Film Festival having come to a close this weekend, the L.A. Times yesterday picked four actors they think are poised for stardom. And Naomie Harris is one of them! Here are a few excerpts from the short article.
It is really interesting because there’s lots of information about all the work that everybody put into the film and also what happened before they started shooting. So you should definitely read the whole thing here.
“I wanted to go back and do something really small, really intimate, where I felt like I could be part of the creative process. And meeting a director like Justin Chadwick, who’s always allowing you to contribute — that’s really liberating.
I wanted my passion to be re-ignited, and that’s definitely what happened on this piece.”
Apparently Naomie actually had to teach first graders in Kenya for two weeks before they started shooting.
“It was terrifying. I had to have the Kenyan accent, I had to come up with lesson plans, I taught them all day, which was incredibly exhausting.”