Bella Ramsey: I wish I'd been more rebellious as a teenager

At eleven, Bella Ramsey traded the ordinary turbulence of adolescence for the measured composure of a professional adult world — a bargain whose cost only became visible a decade later, on the set of a film about young people confronting mortality. Sunny Dancer, shaped by director George Jaques's own reckoning with his mother's cancer diagnosis, asks what society owes those who grieve and those who are never permitted to simply be young. Together, Ramsey and Jaques surface a quiet cultural failure: the expectation that loss be absorbed quickly, that youth conform readily, and that resilience m