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Cressida Bonas: I’ll try Hollywood if right opportunity arrives

LA lifestyle: Cressida Bonas has her sights set on Hollywood
LA lifestyle: Cressida Bonas has her sights set on Hollywood

Cressida Bonas says she is ready to take on Hollywood as her long-delayed film debut finally hits the big screen this summer.

The actress shot Tulip Fever — co-starring Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Cara Delevingne — in 2014, shortly after her relationship with Prince Harry came to an end.

The big-budget period drama, written by Sir Tom Stoppard, is produced by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who described Bonas as a “fantastic actress” and predicted the part would be the “first of many, many roles”.

However, the film’s release date has been repeatedly pushed back. It is now set to premiere in the US this August.

Bonas, 28, told the Standard: “It’s such a small part and it happened such a long time ago, but it was a great first film experience and I’m looking forward to it being released.

“I’m a real home person and close to my family, but would love to go out to LA if the right opportunity came along. I do feel more at home in theatre so perhaps even New York.” Her next stage role will be in Mrs Orwell at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Angel.

Written by Tony Cox, it dramatises the meeting between a terminally ill George Orwell and Sonia Brownwell, who became his second wife three months before he died of tuberculosis in 1949.

The actress, who plays the title role, said she hoped to show her character in a different light, as history had judged her harshly.

​Bonas said: “A lot of people have called her a gold-digger and a social climber, but from what I’ve read, and how she’s written in the play, she had genuine feelings for Orwell. She’s a very strong character and the story is funny and poignant.

“I’ve loved Orwell through reading 1984 and Animal Farm, but I didn’t know about Sonia at all until I read the script. The play shows you a different side to him as well.”

Mrs Orwell runs from August 1 to 26.