I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.
AGYNESS DEYNI’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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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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Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It’s hard work, but really wonderful.
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I’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
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I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.
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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 love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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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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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 suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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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 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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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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Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
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My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I’d be like, ‘Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!
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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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