The Skins cast have reunited - more than a decade since the last episode with original cast members.
The gritty Channel 4 drama was loved by UK teens, and it catapulted the careers of actors like Daniel Kaluuya, Dev Patel, Nicholas Hoult and Jack O’Connell.
And now, all these years later, Kaya Scodelario has shared a picture with former co-stars Hoult, Kaluuya and Joe Dempsie.
She posted a sweet picture to Instagram with the caption: “The way I used to pray for brothers growing up – knowing I have you all now is everything.”
“I love seeing the skins cast still interacting with each other to this day,” one fan wrote on X.
“This has really put me in my feels,” another added.
Earlier this year, Scodelario revealed that the cast were paid the “absolute bare minimum” during the show’s run, due to the majority of the cast being unknown names without previous acting credits.
Speaking on the Really Good Exposure podcast with fellow Skins star Megan Prescott, who played Katie Fitch in seasons three and four, Scodelario described how the popularity of Skins didn’t always match up with the cast’s paycheques.
“We were part of a really huge show, and we weren't paid particularly well for it,” she recalled of the Bristol-based teen drama series.
“I mean, we didn't have agents. We didn't have any experience. We weren't known names. So they got away with paying us the absolute bare minimum.”
Scodelario told the Really Good Exposure podcast she was scouted for Skins as a teenager smoking in the street near the audition venue.
“[My] school got faxed through about open auditions at the National Youth Theatre in Holloway, which was on my way home from school, and [the audition call out] was for 16 to 18-year-olds. I was 14 at the time but I really wanted to go,” she remembered.
Skins creator Brian Elsley was outside having a cigarette, she remembers. “He saw me cross the road, and I think I was smoking a cigarette. Of course. Yeah, very proper London teenager. And he came over and he asked if I wanted to audition for Effy, and I did.”
But Scodelario didn’t get the part. “[It] went to someone else,” she said. The other Effy went as far as filming several episodes before her mother realised Skins’s adult nature and pulled her out of the series.
“Her mum realised that she wasn't comfortable with her child playing this part or something like that, disagreed with the scripts or whatever happened, happened,” Scodelario recalled, “and she was gone and then I was brought in.”
