That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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