Stacy Martin still couldn’t really believe that she was sitting there, in a hotel in New York City on a Wednesday morning, to talk about her leading role in Lars von Trier‘s “Nymphomaniac.” Given the circumstances and string of serendipitous moments that led to her casting, it was hard to blame her.
Rewind a few years and Martin, now 22, had just finished the kind of degree — Media and Cultural Studies at the London College of Communications — that generally leads to writing about movies, not starring in them. But she’d been modeling to support herself, using the side career to fund lessons for her true interest: acting.