Victoria Stokesis a deeply relatable look at young adulthood – and with the director pushing for it to be part of the sex ed curriculum over in the UK, there’s a strong case to be made for it to be essential viewing for teenagers.“three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Coming up with the bones of the story while catching up with old friends at a wedding, Walker agrees that it was definitely a strange experience to revisit that time in her life – as she puts it, “it’s been amazing and also tough to kind of get back to it”. “I think you’re so scared to stick out that you’re like, ‘Must pretend everything is fine’”, Walker continues. “I don’t know if it’s secrecy or more a cover-up.”
Social media often gets a bad rap, particularly where teenagers are involved, but TikTok was another intrinsic resource for the team. “I did loads of research on TikTok,” Walker admits. “I mean, we’ve got hundreds of videos downloaded from TikTok, like performance stuff, costumes, definitely music references. We also cast Laura Ambler off TikTok who plays Paige.