Cannes: ‘How to Have Sex’ Star Mia McKenna-Bruce on How James Cameron Gave Her an Unlikely Early Start

The British actress makes her debut in Cannes in the buzzy Un Certain Regard drama, her first lead role.

It was a phone call from James Cameron that first gave a young Mia McKenna-Bruce the inspiration to act. Well, almost.at home in London around the age of six, she says she was so “traumatized” by the film that she couldn’t sleep.

After several weeks, her mum had the bright idea to get the film’s director to ring her up so he could explain over the phone to the terrified child that what she’d seen was just a movie, with people wearing costumes on a set. “And I was like, wait, this is a real job that you can do, and you can make people cry,” she recalls. As a hugely energetic and overdramatic youngster, McKenna-Bruce knew what she wanted to do with her life.

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