From Skins to Pirates Of The Caribbean (via a lesbian kiss)… Kaya Scodelario is now set to make £10million a movie as Disney’s newest princess

SHE was the party girl of teen telly drama Skins – but Kaya Scodelario is now set to make £10MILLION a movie as Disney’s newest princess.

Starring opposite Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem and Geoffrey Rush in the new Pirates Of The Caribbean film, the Brit actress has hit the Hollywood big time.

Despite Keira Knightley returning to the Pirates fold after ten years in Salazar’s Revenge, there is little doubt about who the new booty is on board the Black Pearl.

One film studio insider told The Sun last night: “Everyone’s saying Kaya’s the next Keira. She’s gorgeous, talented and surprisingly down to earth.”

Kaya, 25, is reportedly being paid £1.5million for her role as orphan Carina Smyth in the fifth Pirates instalment, the second most expensive movie ever made with a £245million budget — 2011 Pirates film On Stranger Tides cost £290million.

With a sixth chapter of the blockbuster franchise likely, Kaya can expect a bumper payday.

Our insider added: “Kaya is now signed with CAA, the biggest agency in Hollywood.

“The Pirates franchise has so far made £2.85billion worldwide and the word is that she’ll reprise her role in the next one too.

“She’s at the level in her career where she’s getting several million per movie but now that she’s proven herself her salary is going to triple.

“No doubt her next pay cheque will be closer to ten million.”

Although she is a Disney princess now, Kaya’s early life was certainly no fairy tale.

Her English dad Roger Humphrey left her Brazilian mum Katia Scodelario when Kaya was aged just one, moving to Vietnam to run golf tours.

They were only reconciled shortly before his death in November 2010.

Raising Kaya alone in a council flat in North London, Katia, 54, an accountant, was determined Kaya should receive the best upbringing possible — later even accompanying her to showbiz parties so she could bring her home safely.

Kaya recalled: “I spent most of my time on estates where my friends lived. I used to drink in flats but my mum was very strict.

“I used to hate it and think it was because she was foreign that she wanted me home by eight o’clock.

“But she didn’t want me to get pregnant like all the people around me.

“My mum’s quite open-minded. She’s Brazilian and I think that helps. I always knew about sex, about drugs, about religion.

“I did go through a phase of smoking weed but I told her about it and she convinced me to stop. I never smoked it again.

“She’s even made me promise never to do a nude scene. That’s my excuse, producers!”

Fellow pupils at her high school in East Finchley added to the pressure.

Kaya said: “I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied, I was dyslexic, I had an immigrant single parent, I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.”

Having been “bullied to the point of having to chVisit Siteange schools”, when Kaya was 14 she popped into the casting for Channel Four’s Skins simply because it was on the way home from her new school.

Despite not attending drama school and having no major acting experience other than as a pupil seduced by her teacher in 2012 BBC1 drama True Love — in which she shared a kiss with Billie Piper — it was a decision that changed everything.

Her character Effy was the longest running in the show, surviving for four series, and getting up to all sorts of mischief with sex and drugs.

Kaya was drawn to the role as it reflected a life she was familiar with.

She said: “My best friend’s boyfriend was stabbed in Stoke Newington a couple of months before I got offered the role.

“I know kids who live like this.”

It also brought back memories of her time at school.

She said in 2010: “My school was voted the worst school in Islington. Reading the Skins script reminded me of being back there, that sort of intimidation, the feeling you have when you’re that age, that you’re god and you rule everything.

“I went through a year of hating myself at secondary school.

“But it was at my new school that I got told about the open auditions for Skins and that would never have happened if I hadn’t moved.”

One episode saw Effy flash her boobs at Jack O’Connell’s character, James Cook, and having sex with him on a hospital table.

Their romance continued off-screen, with Kaya saying: “That was my first love. We were so young and at the same time both becoming famous.

“I was completely in love with him. If he’d told me to jump off a bridge, I would have.”

They broke up in 2009 when Jack, 26, who was convicted of drink driving aged 17, “broke my heart”.

Kaya added: “I spent a whole week in my room crying, thinking that the situation could never improve.”

After dating Shameless actor Elliott Tittensor, Kaya ended up giving evidence in court following an incident in 2010.

A trainee plumber called Oliver Flint had asked to borrow the then 18-year-old Kaya’s mobile outside a McDonald’s in North London and then followed her.

Tittensor, who was sat in his BMW, got into a row with Oliver, 18, and then drove his car forward, knocking him to the floor with enough force to cause brain damage.

Police considered charging Tittensor with attempted murder but later fined him £750 for driving without insurance.

Oliver pursued Tittensor through the civil courts to win a case for damages in 2015 — the year after she made her first appearance as Teresa in the Maze Runner trilogy.

Kaya gave evidence via a videolink from Australia during a break from filming Salazar’s Revenge, where she praised “gentle” Tittensor, now 27, and blamed the subsequent fallout from the fracas for their break-up.

It was in Australia in 2014 that Kaya met her husband Benjamin Walker while they filmed The King’s Daughter, which is due for release this year.

Benjamin, 34, divorced Meryl Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer a year earlier and quickly fell in love with Kaya.

He proposed after just six months and they got married at New York City Town Hall in 2015.

Their son, whose name has not been revealed, was born last November.

While Kaya has described her Skins days as “my university where we did a lot before we were even legally allowed to”, these days she prefers to stay in with Benjamin and their baby in their New York home.

But even though they are settled in the States, the girl from East Finchley still struggles to adjust to the culture shock of being a big Hollywood star.

She said: “You walk on set and there’s 500 extras, there’s a dog that’s an actor and a rat that’s an actor.

“I tried to pet the dog and they were like, ‘Please don’t, he’s working.’”

• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge opens in cinemas on Friday.