, a performance Bukky’s feels in harmony with — arrived at her school, seeking someone who could approach and understand the film's protagonist. She auditioned, and after some back and forth, got a callback. “I remember that day like it was yesterday,” she says.
She met Lucy and Sarah in a cafe in north London with a group of the girls she had auditioned alongside. Having initially been turned down a few weeks prior — the circumstances of casting big ensemble projects with newcomers sometimes lets people temporarily slip through the net — her presence had lingered in their mind for a little longer. They backtracked, and wanted to meet again. When they did, Lucy and Sarah told Bukky she’d got the lead role.
For a debut role, Rocks asks a lot of Bukky: a performance that requires both a youthful, teen naivety that anyone young and with a normal upbringing would possess, while also asking her to dive into deep moments of gruelling emotion. The movie forces you to reckon with the idea of how you too would navigate a situation like Rocks faces at her young age. Bukky describes those scenes as “the most intimidating things I've done in my life”.
In preparation for those moments, Sarah would ask Bukky to go sit by herself, away from the cast, and think. She’d listen to music: melancholy piano pieces and Motown ballads. “I would just put myself in Rocks' shoes, and imagine if this was happening to me,” Bukky says of those days on set, before admitting: “I know that sounds mad simple. I'm still learning. I'm still trying to become a better actress. I had to sort of eradicate all the embarrassment that I felt.
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