From Winter Issue 64 Glass speaks to British actor Emma Laird about fearless filmmaking, overcoming insecurities and the meaning of success Emma Laird is quirkiness personified. Not even a minute into our Zoom call, and the most important topic of the season already arises. “I just made the nicest soup about an hour ago and […]

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Isabella Rossellini, Emma Laird and Millicent Simmonds are set to star in “Vermillion,” a period piece set during the last days of the French Revolution to be directed by British director Jon Amiel. Based on the play by Joel Gross, “Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh,” which first played in New York in 2007, and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following its SXSW premiere last March, Satisfaction is continuing its international festival run this weekend. In an exclusive new clip from the Alex Burunova-written/directed drama, which makes its U.K. premiere on Saturday at Glasgow Film Festival, Emma Laird’s Lola has a tense exchange with her partner Philip (Fionn Whitehead) over dinner with their new […]

Charlotte Regan is the writer-director of Mint, the upcoming BBC drama about a Scottish crime family and a budding romance between Shannon (Emma Laird) and Aaron (Ben Coyle Larner), two young lovers from rival firms. The series has some of the beats of a crime-romance-family drama, but also heightened visual moments such as Shannon levitating, […]

Emma Laird recalls a moment — not all that long ago — when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a picture-postcard sunset skyline and smoking a cigarette. “It was so cinematic,” she says. “And I was crying my eyes out.” The Brit had been on the […]