Cara Delevingne on starring in new Amazon show Carnival Row as a refugee faerie
- The British actress plays Vignette Stonemoss in the new Amazon Prime Video series set in a Victorian fantasy world
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Actors prepare for roles in a variety of ways, but that doesn’t usually include hours and hours of wearing a heavy backpack to simulate what it would be like to have wings sprouting from one’s back.
That’s what Cara Delevingne did to get ready to star in Carnival Row, a new Amazon Prime Video series released on Friday, in which she plays a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss who, as such creatures tend to do, possesses the power of flight.
“I couldn’t take the wings home and practise with them so I just got backpacks and carried heavy books on my back to understand what it would be like to have wings all the time. Even her balance would not be normal.”
Delevingne’s faerie lives in a Victorian fantasy world in a city called Burgue that has become a haven for mythological immigrant creatures.