About to star in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, Mia Goth looks set to step from stardom to mega stardom, and part of that journey will take her through the GFFA alongside Matt Smith and Ryan Gosling in Star Wars: Starfighter. Elle caught up with Mia to discuss all of that, her career and her currently-filming adventure in the galaxy far, far away.
Goth is on the precipice of a transformational moment: a shift from small-but-mighty genre films to mega-mainstream cinema. This fall, she stars alongside Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein. She’s also recently wrapped production on Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, coming in 2026. Through December, she’ll be in and out of London, filming 2027’s Star Wars: Starfighter with director Shawn Levy and co-stars Ryan Gosling and Matt Smith. Then, of course, there’s Marvel Studios’ long-delayed Blade reboot, to which Goth confirms she’s still attached. (She has no update on the film’s beleaguered production, saying only, “It’s for the best that it’s taken the time that it has. They want to do it right.”)
I ask if stepping into a bigger, broader spotlight scares her, or if she’s intimidated to be working with some of the most in-demand names in her industry. “It’s given me a lot of strength, actually,” she says. “To trust myself, to be a little less scared of the world. It’s empowering, having the opportunity to work at this level.”
Starfighter director Shawn Levy feels strongly that Mia is in a league of her own (“Mia is a unicorn of an actress“) which bodes well for what we’ll be seeing in May of 2027.
When we spoke in August, Goth had recently returned from Nolan’s Odyssey set—“one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had making a movie”—and was preparing for her role in Star Wars: Starfighter, reportedly set five years after 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. “It’s really intense, but I love it,” Goth says. “I’m being pushed in a way that I’ve never been pushed before….This is a completely separate film, not a prequel. It’s its own thing, with new characters. And it’s a great script, a really great script.” Of casting Goth’s role, Starfighter director Levy told me, “We needed a singular actor to play a fiercely complex new character within the Star Wars galaxy. Mia is a unicorn of an actress. It’s not like you could ever say, ‘We need a Mia Goth type,’ because there is no type. There’s just Mia.”
