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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Lashana Lynch - ‘I didn’t know when I was auditioning that I was going to be 007’
Description: Lashana Lynch has had a pretty incredible few years: she was the first ever Black female agent with a licence to kill in the James Bond franchise, played a ferocious warrior (and performed her own stunts) in The Woman King, became part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and portrayed Mrs Honey in the movie adaptation of Matilda. Now she’s back in a Sky adaptation of The Day of the Jackal, co-starring Eddie Redmayne.
It’s a long way from her working-class upbringing in Hammersmith, West London - a childhood she credits with teaching her resilience and grit...