COSMOPOLITAN – The Gentlemen season 1 dropped in 2024 on Netflix and violently, criminally, suddenly took over the streaming charts. A huge portion of that success is thanks to Kaya Scodelario, who plays the unapologetic—and frankly a little terrifying—Susie Glass. In season 1, Susie’s role is to take Theo James’s Eddie Halstead under her wing and convince him that being involved in organized crime and the drug trade is actually kind of fun. But now that the show has wrapped season 2, Susie’s role has shifted. Not only did she strike out on her own, eager to get out from her father’s shadow, but she’s trying to rein in an Eddie who is becoming increasingly hard to control.

Kaya hopped on Zoom with Cosmopolitan to talk through showing new vulnerable shades of Susie this season, why she lobbied hard against a love triangle between Susie, Eddie and Bella, and the evergreen sexual tension between Susie and Eddie.

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THE ITALIAN REVE – Just after an unusually intense heatwave swept through London, on a clear summer day, we met actress Kaya Scodelario, who has built her career, role after role, on iconic female characters destined to stand the test of time.
Now, she is leaving an indelible mark as Susie Glass in the Netflix series “The Gentlemen”, created and directed by Guy Ritchie. And in the second season, she does anything but disappoint. Instead, she surprises us, constantly keeping us on the edge of what seems possible and what does not, only to catch us off guard once again.
Guy Ritchie’s world runs on a particular kind of danger: fast talk, faster consequences, and characters who never quite let you see what they’re really thinking. In “The Gentlemen”, Susie Glass is the one holding it all together – sharp-tongued, immaculately dressed, and seemingly untouchable, even as the men around her keep testing exactly how far that control extends.
And this season pushes Susie further than ever: closer to power, closer to real feeling, and perhaps closer to letting someone in. It’s a performance built on precision, right up until the moment that precision breaks.
Meeting Kaya for our September Cover Story was something precious, an encounter I will carry with me for a very long time. She is a woman with a powerful presence, who speaks with a refreshing frankness. We talked about what it means to be present in your own life, the incredible world of “The Gentlemen”, and why Kaya has found it necessary to protect her private life. Moreover, we chatted about the strange poetry of Ritchie’s dialogue, how the wardrobe could be your personal armour, the discipline of playing vulnerability without losing an ounce of strength, and what it means to find real peace only in the seconds before a camera starts rolling.

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GRAZIA – Kaya Scodelario has been getting recognised by a lot of Gen Zers lately – mainly in supermarkets. ‘I want to go to them, “I’m an old lady!”’ she protests. (She’s only 34, FYI.) ‘“I’m just in Sainsbury’s doing my shopping – why do you care?” But Skins does seem to transcend generations.’ The show is enjoying a renaissance via Instagram and TikTok with a new audience, but if you grew up anywhere near a TV screen in the late ’00s, the gritty E4 teen drama was inescapable – and by extension so was Scodelario, who played Effy, the coolly mysterious Bristol tearaway who inspired teenage girls all over Britain to smudge their eyeliner and rip holes in their tights.

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