I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn’t about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial.
AGYNESS DEYNTo 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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I dont have that many friends.
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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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Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.
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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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I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.
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When you’re young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, ‘This is totally the truth’, ‘cos you don’t know any difference, so there’s a real confidence in your way of thinking.
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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 suppose each project is a new thing, so there’s all this excitement and nerves about this new thing.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn’t matter what their exterior is.
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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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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 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’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 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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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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I don’t think a name defines the core of who you are.
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I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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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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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 don’t know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It’s interesting.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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I dress like a tomboy.
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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’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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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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