That was when I first saw her, the woman that I would come to know as Gwendoline. The woman who would change my life. Eventually, I would come to learn so many things about her. For instance, that she was six years old when she stole her first wristwatch. That she was 16 when she first got a hot rod and when she stole her first car. I would learn that she had a red notice from Interpol since she was 17. But at that moment, in that basement, I didn’t know any of that. All I knew was—of all the people in that basement, she was the one smiling at me.
Nathalie Emmanuel as Gwendoline Starr in Army of Thieves (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer















