She plays Billie, a dancer at one of those clubs — and when she arrives to speak to me, she’s keen to highlight just how groundbreaking the show is.“My understanding of women of that time was, ‘Oh yeah, of course they went to work in the factories when men went away [to war]’,” Myers says, but Dope Girls tells a different story, loosely based on Kate Meyrick, a woman who rose from obscurity to become a nightclub owner in Soho.
tWhen you factor in her role as Cindy Breakspeare in the Bob Marley biopic One Love, that’s a lot of period drama roles — something she insists is coincidental.
“It’s funny, even the theatre jobs I had at drama school: one was set in the Tudor times and the next in the Antebellum South.
After getting a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she entered the acting world just as lockdown hit which required a lot of “acting on Zoom”.
Born in London to Scottish and Jamaican parents, she “grew up going to the theatre a lot” thanks to her mother’s job as a set and costume designer.
