I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
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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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You know, even though I’m in fashion, I don’t, like, do fashion. Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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I don’t expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
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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.
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Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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I’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run.
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I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
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Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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I feel like every project that I’ve been doing, I’ve learned something about myself. It’s like I’ve cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider.
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I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
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I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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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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Well, I suppose I’ve never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don’t get cabs; I’m on the Tube with my Oyster card.
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I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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I don’t know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It’s interesting.
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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’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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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 dress like a tomboy.
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Not just in modeling, but in society, there’s so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it’s just so unobtainable.
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I’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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