Jessica Henwick is still riding high from the BAFTA awards when she sits down with Variety to discuss her pivot to writing and directing. Her short film, “Bus Girl,” didn’t win in the Best Live Act…
to discuss her pivot to writing and directing. Her short film, “Bus Girl,” didn’t win in the Best Live Action Short category on the night but Henwick appears genuinely thrilled simply to have been nominated for the project, which she wrote, directed and starred in.
Johnson is even credited in the “thank yous” on “Bus Girl,” both for the advice he gave and also for enabling her to make the short in the first place. Crew, location and cast had all been locked for the “Bus Girl” shoot when Johnson offered Henwick the part of Peg, the long-suffering assistant to Kate Hudson’s obnoxious socialite Birdie Jay in “Glass Onion.” Henwick agreed to take the role on condition she could take time off to make “Bus Girl.” “Everyone thought I was crazy,” Henwick recalls.
While Henwick may be better known for her on-screen appearances she reveals she’s been writing longer than she has been acting, starting with fanfiction as a teenager. “When I was a kid, I said ‘I want to be a storyteller,’” she explains. “I see acting and writing and directing as just different strings of the same bow.” Around five years ago she sold her first script, to Amazon Studios, and has just turned in the last draft for one of two pilots over at another major U.S. streamer.
Given that Henwick hasn’t been offered a decent role in the U.K. for five or six years, the results perhaps didn’t come as a surprise to Henwick. “It does make me sad that England is a little bit slower on the uptake,” she says. “[In America] there’s more willingness to see me in roles which aren’t specified as Asian. I still think that that’s a hurdle in England; if a role is written neutrally with no ethnicity attached it must be a white actor. That’s happened time and time again.
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