The model-turned-actor tag can be a blessing and a curse. On one hand, producers are keen for your beautiful face (and large following) to be involved with their project. On the other, well… Hollywood is littered with the broken dreams of models who thought they could act. Jourdan Dunn, one of the most successful models of her generation, is deter - mined not to be one of them.
I felt like I owe it to myself,’ she says over a cardboard cup of tea in a boardroom at ITV’s White City HQ. ‘Acting is something that I’ve always wanted to do, since I was a kid, way before I knew anything about fashion. I was always in front of the mirror at my grandma’s house, acting out different scenarios.’
