Adult Life Skills (2016)

Adult Life Skills is a British comedy-drama about a woman stuck in arrested development. She's living in a shed in her mother's garden. She's grieving and refusing to grow up. Jodie Whittaker leads the film with a performance that mixes real humor with real heartbreak. This was years before her genre-defining television work made her a household name. One scene from the film is archived here on the site. It catches Whittaker in a more exposed, vulnerable spot. She's stripped of the character's usual defenses. For fans tracing her early work, it's a small but telling piece of the puzzle.