The Cult of Effy Stonem

There are good actors, great actors, and the ones that ARE the character they play. They play them so well you wonder if they really sat down at that reading table memorizing those lines coming out of their mouths, or if this is just them giving you the privilege to witness it.

Such ease to their craft and the storyline they’re telling you, unawareness about it - challenges your sense of reality and fiction here; are these people actors or really these characters?

I don’t think there ever was a better cast than David Duchovny as Hank Moody, Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold, and SKINS‘ Kaya Scodelario as Effy Stonem.

She simply owns this role. The way they wrote her and the way she delivers. She’s annoying the same amount of the time as she’s dazzling you, another testament to her talent. She’s effortless and careless, she’s captivating, enigmatic, silent but speaks volumes with just the expressions on her face.

The famous smirk.

A famous Bristol party girl everyone wants, with smeared eyeliner and style to die for. And someone did die for it.

An IT girl of her generation. A force of nature. The beauty, the grunge aesthetics, the smugged make-up, stone-cold eyes, behavior, and emotions; reckless living in tow.

An iconic, cult role that will do down in history for years, and decades to come.