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With a friendly voice, optimistic outlook, and a go-getter attitude, [Jessica Allain](https://www.instagram.com/jessicaallain/) is just getting started with Hollywood. She can currently be seen in _The Laundromat_ as Simone, the recent college graduate who shows altruism for her mother’s well-being and resilience in getting a huge sum of cash as her father’s graduating gift to her.
Starting as a model, but quickly realizing that acting is her career passion, she loves to be multidimensional and dynamic when pursuing different characters/roles. This can be seen in her short, yet colorful movie appearances thus far. She can be seen in a Netflix horror film called _Thriller_, an extra in the iconic action movie _Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation_, the dark comedy-drama _The Laundromat_, and soon to come as the lead in the independent feature _Two Eyes_, as well as a few other films.
Hailing from London, England, she seems to have quickly adapted to the positivity that sunny L.A. can bring because through bits of laughter she graciously answered the many questions I had awaiting.
She is the lead role of the _Two Eyes_ film remake in which she took inspiration from the character’s personality of being a wild foreign exchange student from London who comes to the sex, drugs, and rocker world of America, but incorporated herself into the part and kept it unique to herself. There are no limitations for her as an actress; she strives to act in many different film genres and play dynamic characters. She is a fairly new actress who refers to herself as being “fresh on the block” and is determined to be experimental in her roles and enjoys testing herself as an actress. Thus far she has played in horror, comedy, drama, all of which allow different experiences and she wants to continue being able to work with different roles.
In _The Laundromat_ (her latest venture) she plays Simone, who is the daughter of a wealthy family and is about to celebrate her graduation party at her mansion. To her surprise, she catches her father getting intimate/cheating with her university roommate/close friend next to the pool. Allain described this role as “fun” because the character finds out this horrible thing, and although she is visibly upset about this, she’s ready to get back up on her feet and collect her money from her new business as a graduation present and is ready to manipulate her father at the same time. She explains how she loves that the character had the option to either be upset and crying over her dad or get something out of it herself, which she tried to do. As well, these conflicting emotions allowed for an interesting role to play because she is not just some sweet sad university child, but is also all about getting her money.
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Acting seemed to be a childhood interest until she got a real taste of the acting life during her modelling career. She started modelling for a while and was not sure what she was doing with her life (we can all relate) and the agency sent her on glorified extra roles in movies, which included a _Mission Impossible_ film and she described that being on set she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I was like ‘this is what I want to do, this is how I want to do it’ and then a few months later I jumped on a plane to LA with $800. I didn’t have anywhere to live. I knew one girl which was my best friend and yeah we kind of just shared a bed for 9 months.” She confidently reassured me that she made it out and even though she is still on the journey, she doesn’t “share a bed no more.”
In regards to her future acting career, she said that she would love to work more with Meryl Streep. “I know I worked with her in _The Laundromat_, but it’s kind of different when someone’s head to toe in disguise. I kept looking over at her and I was like ‘that’s Meryl Streep’ and I had to keep telling myself that cause she looked completely different in my scene.” She also loves Angelina Jolie and is a huge fan of strong women in film.
Allain has a multicultural background. While she was born and raised in London, her parents and relatives are from the Caribbean. She believes that being raised by an immigrant family has definitely helped with her acting career because it has allowed her to see things from a different perspective. As well, she explains that London is so multicultural that you just see things from different perspectives, different cultures, different races, and in that respect she had a great upbringing because it immensely helped her with her acting. She laughed when saying how, although her parents are very supportive, she doesn’t think her parents understand what’s going on due to not being a part of that world.
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As with all movie and show lovers, I was intrigued to find out what this young actress’s favorite tv show or movie was. After hearing the question she let out an extremely enthusiastic “OOOOOH” and only needed a few seconds to think about her answer. “I love _Fleabag_. I’m kind of getting more into comedy because I mean we filmed _The Laundromat_ and it wasn’t really comedic and even on paper and the script it wasn’t really funny, but when I watched it back I find it hilarious, so now I’ve started watching more comedies. I just started watching _Fleabag_ and obviously I’m British so I love it…… it’s super good you gotta watch it.” Another show I happily added to my long list of: need to watch.
Lastly, I had to find out what her favorite thing about LA was, which was a surprise and not a surprise at the same time when she said, “definitely the sun.” She recalls going home at Christmas and having already forgotten about standard English weather she asked her dad, “Is there a fire here? Why is it so dark?” In which his reply was, “No this is just the life we’re living over here.” She reassures her love for LA and the sun that seems to be synonymous with it, as well as advising me to go to London in the summer. “Everyday it’s sunny and I think that really impacts on your personality.” I have to agree, especially after spending just eight minutes with the actress who is a clear example of a shining and charismatic personality. I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to speak with such a driven and fascinating young woman and thanks to her I now have a new show to watch and a summer trip to plan.
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[Watch Laundromat on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80994011)
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