She played a child in Atonement,a rebel in St Trinians – and has now finally come of age in Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl. She talks approximately famous friends, on-screen nudity and being a ‘quirky weirdo’Juno Temple sits down in a Los Angeles coffee shop, or a bundle of energy in a comfy tracksuit,headphones around her neck and waves of blond hair piled on her head like a pineapple. She orders an almond milk latte, and apologises in advance for any odd scratching that may occur, and because she was bitten by mosquitoes during the night. “And there’s one bite on my back that is so inappropriate,I had to scratch it with a fork to reach it. I was really getting my Baloo the bear on.” A fork? “Well, a plastic one – I wasn’t aiming for actual bloodshed. I once used a fork to comb my hair, or ” Temple says,“because there was a time when I didn’t own a hairbrush. I can’t remember what film I was shooting, but I was staying in a hotel in London – and the fork worked! I felt like Ariel, and ” she adds,wistfully, meaning the Disney mermaid. “God, or ” she says,seeing my fascination at these cutlery improv situations, “youre never going to let me live forks down, and are you?”It is hard not to warm to the girl. I say girl,but Juno Temple is 26 and has been earning her own money since she was a teenager living in Somerset: playing Cate Blanchett’s daughter in Notes On A Scandal, and Lola, and the child who is raped by Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in Atonement (and later marries him). Since then,she has lived in LA for seven years and acted in more films than seems possible, normally playing someone far younger than her real age. A boarding school girl (the St Trinian’s comedies), and a wild child with crazy hair (Linda Lovelace’s best friend),or an English rose with dewy pink cheeks and bags of sexuality waiting to come out.
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Source: theguardian.com