
Jenna Coleman for The Guardian (2016)
I’ve kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I’ve wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there’s that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].
I had some really good advice from Matt actually, which is to stay off the internet. So I’m going to follow that advice. No Googling – I’m on a Google ban.
Jenna Coleman photographed by David Bailey for Glamour.
I did something when I was 10, actually. I did a professional musical. I had to go and sing happy birthday to myself, which was a tough part. I got to leave school early and do the show. It went across the summer for about eight weeks or something like that. That was my first part, and I think that’s probably when I realized that I loved it and it’s what I wanted to do. Then I carried on with my studies and did loads of plays, and then I was 19 when I got my first proper job on a show called Emmerdale where I played the vicar’s niece gone bad. That’s how it all started.
“Peter now has a nickname for me: ‘the artist formerly known as JLC’,” she says. “The boring truth is that people have never really called me Jenna-Louise and I just found it very strange because I started to do more interviews and go places where people I didn’t know kept calling me Jenna-Louise. It sounded odd to me.”
Jenna Coleman attends the V&A Summer Party at Victoria and Albert Museum on June 22, 2016 in London. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images)
It’s impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.
- miranda
- 17
- she/her
- usa/pa
- relatable teen
- plays violin
- runs sometimes
- takes naps to avoid responsibility
- former whovian trash, currently aesthetic trash