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Jacob Elordi, star of Saltburn and Priscilla, Phoebe Dyenvor from Fair Play and Bridgerton, and Ayo Edebiri of The Bear and Bottoms, are among the nominees for this year’s Bafta rising star award for up-and-coming talent.The actors have been shortlisted alongside Mia McKenna-Bruce from How to Have Sex and Sophie Wilde from Talk to Me. All five have captured the imagination of both the public and film industry over the past year, Bafta said.Elordi – one of the biggest stars of Gen Z, who rose to prominence with his role in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAt Cannes this spring, How to Have Sex was the film on everyone’s lips. The sweaty, sad, sun-drenched British indie flick, about three 16-year-old girls on a rites-of-passage party holiday in Malia, Greece, won the French film festival’s Un Certain Regard prize. John C Reilly, jury president of the arthouse award, said the drama “brings us closer to understanding the human condition”.…

Mia McKenna-Bruce had watched How to Have Sex just once before it screened at this year’s Cannes film festival. The first viewing had been in London: an intimate, cast-and-crew-only affair. Between marvelling at the visuals, score, edit, and cheering on the rest of the performances, she had little time to take in what was actually unfolding on screen.“And maybe,” McKenna-Bruce now says, “I was also too in shock to really digest anything. It was only at Cannes in May that I really sat back and took in what happened to…