By Abby Allen

Copyright hellomagazine

At the age of 22, Olivia told The Guardian she had a “full mental breakdown”.

Attributing her melancholy to a “cocktail” of factors – including being homesick, feeling lonely and not having stopped working since she was 18 – she admits she used work as an escape.

“It was bad, bad. Awful, actually,” she told The Guardian, admitting she worked all the way through it. “I was very good at hiding it.” Shooting both Ready Player One and Thoroughbreds at the time, she said: “If anything, I was like, let me escape myself.”

Olivia’s mental health gradually improved over time, and a significant turning point was moving back to London from New York in early 2020. “Being in London, I just felt like I’d come home,” she said.