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 DEYNWhen I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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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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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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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 dress like a tomboy.
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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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It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That’s how I feel about Meryl Streep.
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I get on with all my exes, so there’s nothing I need to forget about. I don’t know – life is shorter than it seems.
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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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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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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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I can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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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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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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I’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.
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