It’s an old Hollywood cliché: the up-and-coming British soap star who emigrates to Los Angeles seeking fame and fortune only to end up waiting tables, pulling pints, and schlepping from one unsuccessful audition to another until their work visa runs out and they fly home, economy class, with their tail firmly between their legs.
Judi Shekoni certainly knows this drill. For the past six years, the former EastEnders actress
has been its living embodiment: scraping together a living on the
grizzled underbelly of Tinseltown, while her twenties drifted by and
career doors seemed to open a crack, only to be slammed in her face.
She kept plugging away, though. And on 12 November, Shekoni will get her
just rewards. That’s when she will stride a red carpet outside the
Staples Center in Los Angeles, to a chorus of high-pitched screams and a
wall of flashlights, for the world premiere of Breaking Dawn: Part 2, the fifth and final instalment in the stupendously successful Twilight franchise.
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