“I spend a lot of time with them in a way that I wouldn’t normally with younger people,” Sturgess says.
That Sturgess didn’t end up becoming a giant celebrity always felt more deliberate than accidental.
The Florida Project’s Brooklynn Prince stars as a precocious kid detective named Hilde, who moves to a small American town with her journalist dad (Sturgess).
Her scenes with Sturgess, which are full of humour and tenderness, are among the show’s best.