Netflix actress Mia McKenna-Bruce hared her quirky audition technique while announcing the 2026 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.
Mia McKenna-Bruce, who leads the cast of the new murder mystery series Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix, has revealed the unusual method that landed her breakthrough role.
The 28-year-old actress announced the nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award at The Savoy hotel in London, having previously won the accolade in 2024 for her performance in How To Have Sex.
British nominees Posy Sterling, Archie Madekwe and Robert Aramayo were all in attendance at the ceremony, whilst American nominees Chase Infiniti and Miles Caton were unable to make it.
During a Q&A attended by Reach Screen Time and other media outlets, Mia revealed her unconventional approach during her audition for the role of Tara in 2023’s How To Have Sex.
The drama brought her widespread acclaim, securing her a British Independent Film Award alongside the BAFTA Rising Star Award, reports the Express.
When co-host Ali Plumb asked about her most memorable audition experience, Mia responded: “I think it’s going to have to be How To Have Sex.”
Drawing parallels with Posy’s portrayal of Molly Brown in 2024’s Lollipop, she explained: “A lot of it was improv and having to act drunk. So it’s like, ‘Ok, that’s a really hard thing to do.’
“So it was like, ‘Ok, how do I be drunk?’ And I figured, if I just spin around in a circle loads…” she added, prompting laughter from the audience.
“Then that makes you feel dizzy. Yeah, I find it’s a really good way to play drunk because it makes you dizzy and you kind of go ‘woah’ and your voice kind of goes a bit funny because you’re dizzy…
“So I spent a lot of time spinning around in a circle in the audition room hoping that I’d get the job!”
How To Have Sex, which boasts an impressive 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, tells a coming-of-age tale exploring female adolescence.
The synopsis states: “Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday — drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.”
Fast forward three years, and Mia now stars as Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent in Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, adapted from the author’s mystery novel of the same name, which debuts on Netflix today.
The stellar cast also includes Harry Potter legend Helena Bonham Carter, Sherlock’s Martin Freeman and fellow BAFTA Rising Star Award nominee Nabhaan Rizwan.
Netflix describes the new series: “England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths – the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent – to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.
“A witty, epic and fast-paced drama from the Queen Of Crime, Agatha Christie, is brought to life in a thrilling new version for Netflix.”
Voting is now open via ee.co.uk/BAFTA and across EE social channels, with audiences also able to cast their vote on WhatsApp.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials will arrive on Netflix on January 15.
Source: Mirror
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