Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 428th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of

2021's biggest breakouts.

She's a 19 year old Brit who has been acting professionally since she was just eight,

but she took things to a whole different level over the past year or so with her portrayal

of Ruby Rossi, a hearing child of deaf adults who is torn between remaining at home to help

her family and leaving to pursue her own dreams in Sean Hader's Coda, which opened the

2021 Sundance Film Festival, was awarded Sundance's US Grand Jury Prize, US Traumatic Audience

Award, Best Director Prize for the US Traumatic Section, and a special Jury Ensemble Cast

Award, en route to a record setting $25 million worldwide distribution deal with Apple,

and has since been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

It's leading lady meanwhile, won the Best Breakthrough Performer Gotham Award and is nominated

for the Best Actress BAFTA Award, Best Young Actor or Actress Critics Choice Award, and

along with her castmates, the Best Ensemble Saga Award.

Someone I am certain we will be hearing a lot more from for a very long time, Amelia Jones.

Over the course of our conversation, Jones and I discussed her path to performing and

the ups and downs she experienced as a child actor, how around the same time she landed

the leads of both the Netflix series Lock and Key and Coda and how she prepped for both

multi-dimensional characters, what it's been like becoming a star during a global pandemic

and what she's got lined up next, plus much more.

And so, without further ado, let's go to that conversation.

Amelia, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast, absolutely.

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