Sitting opposite me on a sofa in the Corinthia hotel, dressed all in off-white, Jack O’Connell half-smiles, does that exhaling thing people do when they’re deeply contemplating something and then – in response to my very first question – says: “All right, well… this one’s loaded.”
Here FEMAIL takes a look back at Marisa Abela s incredible rise to fame - from starting out in school productions in Brighton to ditching her dream of becoming a human rights lawyer.