Whether she’s talking 70s disco or the vocals of Billie Holiday, Butterworth takes a magpie’s approach to culture, and her passions rarely derive from her generation.Īlong the way, the young actress talks characterisation, overcoming vulnerability, and her desire to go back to the classical texts that RADA gave her a love for. She picks Maurice Ravel’s impressionistic piano movement, Une Barque sur l’Océan(1904-05) a sea-faring composition that “goes from twinkling, light waves to a thunderstorm” before sailing “back out into the beautiful calm of the ocean”.Īnd, by way of contrast, the opening bars of George Benson’s infectious 1980 funk classic, Gimme The Night. Small wonder, perhaps, given that she’s currently playing a woman almost twice her age. In her musical selections, the 26-year-old proves herself to be an old soul. There’s a cohesion to Butterworth’s choices, with both scenes hinging on a brief human interaction and the power of a kind gesture.
In the scene, a painterly figure becomes a metaphor for the movie’s lonely protagonist. Second, a moment in 2002’s Amélie,Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s love letter to the quirks of Paris and its inhabitants. Here, Eliza takes time out from filming in Hungary to talk about the films and songs that have made a profound impact on her.įirst up from the big screen is what Butterworth calls “a two-minute long scene of utter joy” from Tom Ford’s 2009 debut A Single Man, which sees a British professor “lose all sense of containment” with his lover. Butterworth grew up travelling to the American Midwest during summers to spend time with her Italian-American family.
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Aelswith is a Lady Macbeth-esque lover and confidant who challenges Alfred. Eliza Butterworth ’s bubbly and spirited personality couldn’t be further from her onscreen character Aelswith from The Last Kingdom compared to Aelswith’s stone-cold demeanour, Butterworth is energetic, full of life. After graduating from the world renowned RADA in 2014, Eliza went on to star as Lady Aelswith in the epic The Last Kingdom (Netflix).
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Now in production for Season 4, the series follows the life of King Alfred the Great.īutterworth plays Lady Aelswith, wife of King Alfred, in turn played by Butterworth’s real-life husband, David Dawson. Eliza Butterworth is a British/American television, theatre and radio actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She went on to land a place at RADA, where her lack of acting experience made her – in her words – “a blank canvas”.įour months after graduating, Butterworth bucked the struggling actor trend and scooped a role inThe Last Kingdom. The only actor in her family, Butterworth describes herself as arriving to her craft “late in the game”, aged 15. Lincolnshire-born actor Eliza Butterworth stars in Netflix’s Saxon-age drama series The Last Kingdom.
That Scene, That Song is a conversation about two songs and two films that have shaped Eliza, her outlook on life, work, or that have profound personal meaning.
What We Seee Presents Episode 1 of That Scene, That Song featuring Eliza Butterworth.
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