Daisy Edgar-Jones talking to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Photo: The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s has a surprise in store — she is welcomingDaisy Edgar-Jonesto hervirtual book club.
The actress, who made headlines last year forher starring rolein Hulu’sNormal People, is talking about the book that inspired her next movie:Where The Crawdads Sing.
Edgar-Jones, who will portray the book’s central character Kya in the film, tells Camilla’sReading Roomof Delia Owens’s book, “I just feel that this idea of isolation was such a resonant one when I read it because of the climate that we’re currently living in. We’ve all experienced such loneliness and disconnect to our friends and our family because of the pandemic, so being able to escape into Kya’s world and see how she finds comfort and solace and love through the connections she makes with the beautiful natural world that’s around her I just found incredibly comforting and moving.”
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Jennifer Pattinson for The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room
She adds, “I just feel so privileged and excited to be able to be playing her. I think she’s such a special character and such a special person and I think this book will stay with me forever, so to be able to step inside her world for the next few months, I just feel very lucky and I could not recommend this book enough.”
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Camilla includedWhere The Crawdads Singin her recent book club picks. In January, the royal unveiled the first four books in a video on her Reading Room instagram page.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Roald Dahl Story Company
“To me, reading is a great adventure. I’ve loved it since I was very small and I’d love everybody else to enjoy it as much as I do. You can escape, and you can travel, and you can laugh and you can cry. There’s every type of emotion humans experience in a book,” she said.
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