Maya Jama: 'I like to think women relate to the fact my life has not been perfect'

She was conscionable 16 when, having narrowly failed to triumph a relation successful the Channel 4 amusement Skins (the teen play was some formed and acceptable successful Bristol and made the names of Daniel Kaluuya, Dev Patel and Nicholas Hoult), she moved to London and enrolled successful a performing arts people astatine Westminster Kingsway College. Jama had 1 goal: “I wanted to beryllium the caller Keith Lemon,” she laughs. “I loved Bo’ Selecta! and, honestly, getting connected TV and doing adjacent 1 sketch, that was the tallness of my ambition. I didn’t precisely turn up with contacts, assistance oregon hand-outs. If anything, radical expected maine to fail.”