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.
AGYNESS DEYNFor 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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I think that you can’t fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That’s my focus.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching ‘Badlands’ and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
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To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.
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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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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 think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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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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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 just want to do whatever makes me happy…Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun…being a bit daft.
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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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It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.
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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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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 suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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