Born in Hammersmith, with Jamaican roots, Lashana Lynch showed promise from an early age, becoming the first girl to be cast as Pinocchio in West London. She began her working life as a singer but won a scholarship to drama school, which changed the course of her career.
In 2019, she was cast as Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel and, two years later, she received a much-anticipated call from Barbara Broccoli of James Bond fame. Lashana won a Bafta for Rising Star in 2022 for her role as Nomi in No Time to Die, and subsequently landed her dream role as Rita Marley in Bob Marley: One Love. Her new show, Day of the Jackal, is on Sky from 7 November.
Nick mixes an alcohol-free Caleño for Lashana, while Angela prepares a delicious broccoli & anchovy pasta with crispy crumbs. The experts at Waitrose pair this with an Italian white wine, Tre Fiori Greco di Tufo.
Lashana loves food and shares her favourite comfort dishes, along with the occasional challenges of being a pescatarian. She pulls back the curtain on the Hollywood production process – and reveals how it feels to audition to be the new OO7 in the presence of Daniel Craig.
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Timestamps
0:00 Trailer
0:42 Intro
3:11 Guest entrance
3:47 She’s an achiever…
6:41 Pasta love
7:45 But first, a drink
8:21 Pescy
10:05 Hard cheese, not soft
10:48 Food is served
12:25 How to make it
13:25 Pasta to sauce ratio
14:08 Cheese on fish pasta
15:17 What Lashana likes cooking
19:02 Wine pairing
19:47 The Day of the Jackal
22:30 James Bond
28:36 End of the show question
15 Comments
What do you mean 80% sauce!?! That's just a thicc soup!! No!
Ange you are right and for some dishes it's even less sauce! ❤
My mom did the same now I make it right 😂
I’ll do 60 pasta 40 sauce cuz I love making the sauce and put a lot of vegetables and spices
Thank god, i thought i was going crazy. There's too much sauce. As an asian brits do the same with rice and curry, lots of curry, and little rice. It's the opposite. 😂
1/3 sauce is a lot! As an Argentine-Italian I’d say 20% sauce, 80% pasta.
For Ange’s food, whatever she makes will be ok but for most people, no thanks 😉
And definitely just a touch of sauce for pizza. I love NY pizza but not when it’s oozing red sauce 😱
Why is Lashana Lynch dressed for court?
Maybe it’s personal preference? Is there something wrong with wanting more sauce than pasta? No. I like what I like.
Once we learned how to make sauce from scratch I certainly went overboard but then when you make the pasta from scratch, you try not to eclipse it
Ohhhh. That just clarified for me why i like some marinara dishes and not others. I only like enough sauce to cover the pasta in a thin coating. No marinara soup for me!
Not me thinking the whole time Ange is his mom 😭🤣
Ange, please drop skin care too ❤
"I don't care what Ange says, I've been doing this dish for ages!" – Nick's mom
My mum puts so much sauce on her food a small Yorkshire terrier could easily go swimming in it
Live in Italy – dislike and never eat pasta lol…
Sorry im a saucy girl idc