. So late, in fact, that I’m wondering whether I’ve perhaps got the date of our breakfast meeting wrong, when she arrives at the Brooklyn café-cum-bar, with an explanation that’s impossible not to forgive. She’s come straight from the hospital, where she’s spent two nights sleeping upright in a plastic chair; her boyfriend of two years, Australian musician Alex Cameron, fell off some scaffolding while shooting a video and has broken both of his wrists and most of the bones in one hand.
It’s a decade since the British-born 34- year-old first agreed to take part in the pilot episode of a TV series that herGirls, and propelling Jemima to fame as the wild, bohemian Jessa Johansson. Still, she remained a ‘reluctant actress’. ‘I’m much more comfortable with it now,’ she says. ‘But I was protective of my career as a painter, because I know that the title “actor” – if you have any recognition for being an actor – will swallow up anything else that you do.
These days, she happily embraces both – she is working on paintings for a new exhibition while her latest film, Wild Honey Pie!, is released in the UK later this week. The Welsh-set indie comedy-drama – by Jamie Adams, who doesn’t write full scripts, instead asking his actors to improvise – stars Jemima as a tempestuous playwright whose marriage has hit a rocky patch. She’s not a million miles away from Jessa in personality.
Jemima also recently appeared in Untogether, a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Emma Forrest, in which she played a. Jemima has been open about her own wayward past, which landed her in rehab several times. But, unlike many of her characters, she is also thoughtful and reflective, with strong opinions on, among other things, the prudishness of mainstream American culture. ‘It annoys me that people lump “sex and drugs” into one category,’ she declares.
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