Daisy Edgar-Jones On Being Top Billed Over Male Co-Stars Glen Powell, Sebastian Stan & Paul Mescal: “They Are So Generous”

Daisy Edgar-Jones is weighing in on her male co-stars, who she says have supported her being top billed over them.

Edgar-Jones has had many A-list male co-stars like Glen Powell on Twisters, Sebastian Stan on Fresh, and Paul Mescal on Normal People.

“I have worked with basically all of the internet’s boyfriends,” she said in an interview with Elle. “And I’m lucky that every actor I’ve worked with has been incredibly supportive of me being the lead. Glen, Sebastian, Paul, all of them. I think that’s why they’re so successful and so loved and so good: that they are so generous, and they really serve the story and are not serving themselves.”

She continued, “Glen was always like, ‘What’s Kate’s journey in this? Let’s find it.’ And same with Sebastian; he was so completely invested in Noa’s journey. Paul’s like playing tennis with your best friend. I’m nervous for the point that it comes to working with someone who might not be so chill with it! Because there’s so much ego that can exist in this industry.”

Edgar-Jones’ roster includes Harris Dickinson in Where the Crawdads Sing, Andrew Garfield in Under the Banner of Heaven, and Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses.

“Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler left,” she joked about the actors she still has to work with.

Dickinson, who co-starred with Edgar-Jones in Where the Crawdads Sing, told the publication about working with the actress, “She’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. She has immense patience and sensitivity. I think that makes her a brilliant artist, too, because it means she’s fully tuned in.”

As for women leading films, Edgar-Jones said, “It’s great that more and more stories are being made with women front and center. It’s also an interesting thing, being a woman in your 20s, wanting to find characters who are not always ingenues.”

“You want to find characters with agency. I want every character I play to be complicated and deep and have layers to them, because that’s what it is to be human,” she continued. “I feel lucky that a lot of the characters I’ve played have had that. They aren’t defined by their actions or their experiences, or by the men in their life. Like with Kate in Twisters, I know there was a big uproar that there wasn’t a kiss at the end. But she went on a journey in that film that was bigger than a romantic journey.”