Ella Maisy Purvis might be starring in a new Channel 4 crime drama, but success is hard to gauge and has come with awkward moments.
“I was at a coffee shop and this guy came up to me,” she tells me. “He said, ‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’ and I thought, ‘Oh God. Here it is; it’s already started.’” Purvis told him she was in a new TV show. “And he said, ‘No, I don’t know you. I don’t watch TV’.” She grimaces. “I thought, ‘Why did you open your mouth, Ella? Why did you say that?’”
