Jessica Barden on the power of playing a teenage girl who isn't a victim
Barden plays an angry misfit teen named Alyssa in Netflix's The End of The F***ing World — a series that puts a major twist on the serial killer genre.
Jessica Barden is an English actor who you might have seen in films like The Lobster, Far from the Maddening Crowd and Hanna. Now she's taken on the role of an angry misfit teen named Alyssa in the Netflix dark comedy The End of The F***ing World, based on the much-loved graphic novel of the same name by Charles Forsman.
She talks to Tom Power about the edgy role and how the series puts a major twist on the serial killer genre.
— Produced by Shannon Higgins