Sofia Boutella, star of Edinburgh Film Festival charmer Jet Trash, is preparing for the release of her second major motion picture, Star Trek Beyond. Boutella’s first major film role was in Kingsman: The Secret Service, a role she landed after giving up her lifelong dancing career to pursue acting full time. “Kingsman is the first movie that I got after I stopped dancing,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I hadn’t worked for two years, and then boom, I just got Kingsman.”
She does not, however, let her training as a dancer influence her selection of roles. “To me the physicality is as attractive as the psychology, if not the psychology more, because I treat the psychology first, and then I treat what the physicality is about the character.”
She expressed worry that she has started to over-intellectualize her work, and wondered when she would have to let go. When it came to dancing, she said, “I like the fact that I just let go. I noticed as a dancer that when I danced at my best is when I let go of all the rules that I’ve been given.”
Sofia Boutella stars in Jet Trash, directed by Charles Henri Belleville, along with Robert Sheehan and Osy Ikhile.
Star Trek Beyond, directed by Justin Lin, stars Sofia Boutella, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba and the late Anton Yelchin. It hits theaters July 22.
