Daisy Edgar-Jones has told how her granddad once got pneumonia from swimming in the Irish sea – and she’s been fearful to take up sea swimming as a hobby.
The actress – who rose to fame alongside Paul Mescal in Normal People – said she didn’t become a sea swimmer like so many did over lockdown.
She explained her grandfather got sick with pneumonia after he swam in the Irish sea, and it always left her fearful to take the plunge.
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The UK star said: “I haven’t. My grandad did it years ago and got pneumonia so I’ve always been fearful to. I did the Christmas swim in the sea.. so yeah I should.. I want to. But yeah, it wasn’t too cold in Louisiana so that’s good.”
Daisy also admitted she finds attending in person events “weird” as she became so used to doing interviews via zoom.
She jetted into Dublin this week to attend the Irish premiere of her latest film, Where the Crawdads Sing, at the Stella Theatre in Rathmines and admitted that she finds it “odd” to finally make it to these events in person.
“It is weird and it’s weird with something like that where you’re actually speaking your own words,” she told FM104.
“When you do this, in TV or film, luckily somebody else is writing the words for you. So for answering questions, most of my experience of that has been online on Zoom and things like that, so it is odd being out there in person for sure,” she added.
