She’s the face of Lucky Brands and Eterne, and taking off as a model, but what she really wants to do is write screenplays. And she already has. “I’ve finished a sci-fi screenplay but it’s sort of extreme — kind of a super bigtime sci-fi, so I feel I need to do some smaller stuff first.”
That includes writing a short indie film and a biopic of her great grandmother, the late singer, actress, and TV host Dinah Shore. “She was a really cool woman,” says Emily, “who succeeded as a woman at a time when it was difficult to do so.”
In her mid 20s and living in Manhattan’s still trendy Soho district, Emily Grace Hime studied surrealist cinema at New York University. “David Lynch is probably my favorite, but I also really like [Alejandro] Jodorowsky,” she says, speaking of the now-96-year-old Chilean-French director of such mind-altering fare as acid-western El Topo, acid-horror Santa Sangre, and acid-autobio Endless Poetry.
And when not writing or modeling, her perfect night out is “dinner with my friends, have some wine, maybe some burgers, maybe steak, maybe pasta, who knows? And then we’d probably meet up with a larger group of friends, and depending on the vibe, maybe dance.”
Emily danced competitively through childhood. It’s something she credits for a physical precision she brings to modeling. “I like dancing to mostly reggaeton and Afro beats, there’s such a strong beat to the music,” she says. “New York is definitely more like always on, and I do think there’s something sort of cool about feeling that energy, especially at this age, and being in that space of constant movement.”
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