Dynevor comes from three generations of actors. His father, Tim Dynevor, is now a screenwriter. Both of her paternal grandparents were also television actors and at age 14 she began her career in Waterloo Roada BBC One soap opera set in a large comprehensive school. Page Regé-Jeanhis co-star in The Bridgerton Chronicleswas another former student, although the two never overlapped.

For a while, Dynevor worked consistently, juggling roles with GCSEs and A-Levels. At 18, she moved to London – that’s when the offers dried up, probably because she was transitioning from child actress to adult. “It was agony,” she said. “I hate not working.”

No one could say she hadn’t been warned, coming from a dynasty of actors, although her mother’s 30-year career on the world’s longest-running soap opera may have given her the wrong feeling security.

She took a job at a cocktail bar, then moved to Los Angeles where she spent another nine months “resting,” although it was anything but restful. “Maybe that’s why I like The The Earth so much,” she said. “My life was literally like Emma Stone’s at the start of this film. Audition after audition, rejection after rejection. Finally, she got the call from Shonda Rhimes, the groundbreaking American writer and producer of The Bridgerton Chroniclesfollowed by six months of filming in the United Kingdom.

“It’s a crazy industry that can turn around in no time,” she muses. “One minute, you’re back home because it’s Covid,” (The Bridgerton Chronicles didn’t break loose until Christmas 2020)’ and you’re doing the dishes and arguing with your little brother (Samuel, who didn’t follow the family’s call, although his sister Harriet did ), the next day you are at Met the ball.’ The Met Gala was the height of weirdness. “I mean, I don’t know everyone there, but I was watching people a lot. So you’re being watched, and you’re also busy watching everyone else. And it’s all over in a flash.