For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I’d go into a shoot, there’d be all these dresses, and I’d say to myself, ‘Okay, this isn’t me. It’s somebody else. So, who is this person?’ Acting is the next level of that.
AGYNESS DEYNI’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.
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It is captivating, isn’t it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film.
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I know I’m no Whitney Houston.
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Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk.
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You watch her, and you can’t help but notice all of that about her. She’s so influential.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.
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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.
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I’d done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: “Wow!” They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: “I definitely want to do this!”
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I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn’t about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial.
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I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
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I didn’t hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
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I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.
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I’m all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend.
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