Stepping on to the set of your first major studio film can be a nerve-wracking experience in itself, but for 27-year-old Odessa Young, who plays Bruce Springsteen’s love interest Faye in newly released biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, meeting her scene partner Jeremy Allen White involved a whole other dimension of strangeness. “The experience of watching The Bear is so stressful that I’ve kind of got this muscle memory where, the first few times I saw Jeremy, I was sent straight back into the state I was in while watching it,” she laughs. “Obviously he dissolved that very quickly!”
Moving to Los Angeles from hometown Sydney mere hours after turning 18 and “still drunk on the plane from my birthday”, Young’s trajectory has been slowly building since. She’s notched up notable parts in the film adaptation of A Million Little Pieces opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Shirley, with Elizabeth Moss, but it’s with the advent of her latest that Young’s life has taken a Hollywood turn. Sitting in a luxurious room at Claridge’s, the morning after walking the red carpet alongside White and Springsteen himself for the London Film Festival’s UK premiere, life is a whirlwind for Young right now — and the film set itself was no exception.
