After expressing her feelings of misanthropy to Tony, however, her brother snidely remarks to her that she "doesn't fool ", suggesting that she is more vulnerable than her guarded and apparent aloofness may lead others to believe. It is after Tony's life-threatening accident in the finale of the first series, Effy begins speaking again. Her family dysfunctions the times we see them together are also thought to give Effy this trait. From Effy's blog, she was likely influenced by silent film actress Clara Bow, who she profusely references as the "It" Girl from It, which was released in 1927. Various psychologists who have studied Effy's character and personality have come to the conclusion she may have suffered from selective mutism, in Generation 1 and 2, something that affected her in the later seasons. On her blog she reveals that her parents had her see a counselor for withholding speech, but that proved ineffective.
Tony sarcastically comments that she is participating in a sponsored silence, and when asked by Michelle why she never speaks, she simply doesn't answer. The people I should love I hate, and the people I hate." you know, come out of my mum the wrong way. In her first speaking appearance, she describes how she feels toward others: The official website refers to "Tony's little sister and her shadowy ways." Until the first season's eighth episode, " Effy", she does not speak at all, instead sitting silently in the background of the scenes in which she appears, usually with a cold stare or a wry smile (a trademark of hers). She usually goes to social events with her own group of friends, leaving Tony uninvolved in most of her social life, though he helped her on more than one occasion to deceive their parents as to her whereabouts. Scodelario and Nicholas Hoult, Skins party 2007Įffy was born on June 20, 1992, and is Tony Stonem's runaway sister and one of the few people he truly cares about. She was included in 's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters. Kaya Scodelario was included in Entertainment Weekly 's 2009 "Summer Must List", being named "Bad Girl" for her portrayal of Effy. She appears in all of the first four series, as well as the seventh series, and appears in the most episodes (27). Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem is a fictional character in the television series Skins, played by Kaya Scodelario.