British GQ - 04.2020

Jodie Turner-Smith and Naomi Ackie had vastly different breakout roles in 2019. For Turner-Smith,

it was starring alongside Daniel Kaluuya in Queen & Slim, a modern-day, heroic take on Bonnie and

Clyde set in Ohio. Meanwhile, Ackie spent months training to ride and shoot a bow and arrow for Star

Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’s last-ditch horseback charge along a Star Destroyer to fight the forces

of Sith Emperor Palpatine. It was only fate that Ackie was on horseback, not riding a dragon, as she

was originally cast in the now-cancelled Game Of Thrones prequel – not a bad pair of franchises to

be attached to. Meanwhile, Turner-Smith will appear this year in the Tom Clancy adaptation Without

Remorse, as well as A24’s After Yang (no, it’s not about Andrew Yang’s doomed bid to secure the

Democratic presidential nomination; it’s about the moral implications of AI). Spice of life and all that.

The Variety Stars

Naomi Ackie &

Jodie Turner-Smith

Presenters Best Documentary

Naomi wears Valentino and Jimmy Choo

Jodie wears Gucci

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