Letitia Wright picks the location for our interview: Turtle Bay Caribbean diner, on Walthamstow High Street, in north London. Fairy lights and ska music give the place a party vibe. “I wanted to get back to where I used to live,” she says, breezing in and shrugging off her Burberry rucksack. “I wanted you to try some rice and peas. I didn’t want to take you somewhere posh and fancy. That’s for another time.”

Indeed, Wright, 24, is tipped for superstardom, with parts in two stonking new movies coming out this year: Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (out late March), about a world hooked on virtual reality, and Black Panther, an adaptation of the 1966 Marvel comic, in which she plays the princess, alongside Lupita