Phoebe Dynevor Lands October’s Elle

Phoebe Dynevor is formally free from the Bridgerton-verse, and her first large venture can be October’s Honest Play, a Chloe Domont film the place she and Alden Ehrenreich chronicle an influence wrestle inside their relationship. It’d’ve been enjoyable to see her do an aggressively fashionable picture shoot, as a result of that’s such a widely known interval piece and one thing extra modern would possibly assist recontextualize her as extra than simply Duchess Daphne With The Tiny Bangs. Ultimately, it makes the picture unfold really feel slightly uninteresting to me, though that additionally may be as a result of it misses a fireplace in her eyes.

The profile is strictly what you count on. Dynevor should have had teaching on speaking factors, as a result of Honest Play contends together with her character outperforming her companion at work, and she or he makes use of variations on “as a lady on this business” 4 instances. I get it; I might be horrible at that, and she or he hasn’t needed to do a ton of those but. It simply jumped out at me as a quirk. As did this:

When requested for specifics on her private ties to the subject material, although, she prefers to let her work do the speaking. “Look, there are thousands and thousands of examples. I don’t know if I actually need to share any of them,” she says. “Simply being a lady within the business, working from a really younger age, relationships, you title it—each girl, I feel, will relate.” Afterward, after we circle again to the movie’s themes, she says she linked most with Emily in how laborious she works to guard Luke’s emotions. “Emily is basically attempting to make herself small to make him really feel masculine,” Dynevor says. “And I noticed a lot of myself in her for that motive—actually going above and past to guard his fragile ego.”

I ask if, as a profitable girl, she’s ever needed to reduce herself in that method, and she or he says sure. “However I’m getting towards 30 now and the alternative is going on, the place I’m attempting not to try this anymore, and it’s a really good feeling,” she says.

Hmm, a Bridgerton blind merchandise, do we expect?!?

[Photography by Mark Seliger, story by Kayla Webley Adler]