Shalom Brune-Franklin discusses working with Olivia Colman and what’s to come in the 'Dune: The Sisterhood' series.
The actress Shalom Brune-Franklin can still recall the “collective moan” her high school classmates emitted once they found out Charles Dickens novels were on the syllabus. “… We wanted to read more modern authors!” Brune-Franklin tells me over Zoom from her London flat during a frigid February day. “You don’t appreciate it until you get older, go back and read it, and realize just how good it is.
Not only has the 28-year-old British Australian revisited the Victorian author’s texts, she’s dived headlong intospecifically, starring as Estella in the FX and BBC adaptation of the classic novel, alongside Olivia Colman and Fionn Whitehead .
Brune-Franklin is at ease outside of her comfort zone, and has been since she was a child. Born in England, to a Mauritian mother and British-Thai father, her family decided to move to Perth, Australia when she was 15 years old. Her dad, who worked a trade job as an electrician, made a career pivot to being a chef. “He was always super creative and artistic,” the actress says. “He was amazing at drawing and painting, and he worked this job that he didn’t hate, but he didn’t love it.
Curiously enough, the story mirrors Brune-Franklin’s own when it comes to how she got into acting. Initially, the actress had aimed to pursue journalism—but when she failed a key class during her last year of high school, she transferred to drama. “I was thinking, that can’t be a hard subject to pass,” she recalls. “All you have to do is perform at the end of the year—get up on stage and say a few lines.” As the year went on, she found acting came naturally to her, and moreover, she enjoyed it.
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