When Lucy Halliday walked onto the set of The Testaments for her first starring role — opposite Chase Infiniti and in only her third acting job, period — she had a couple of very strong voices in her head helping her along. The first was her character; in Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel, the 22-year-old plays Daisy, a Toronto teen turned undercover agent at a Gilead girls finishing school. “She’s such a gutsy person, and I was constantly trying to find that in myself,” says Halliday.
The second was James McAvoy.
Halliday grew up in Paisley, Scotland, a small town just outside Glasgow, where McAvoy is a true hometown hero, one of very few young(ish) celebrities local actors can look to as an example. She had just wrapped work on McAvoy’s directorial debut, California Schemin’, about two Scottish friends who reinvent themselves as a California rap duo (the film
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