I didn’t hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
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 suppose each project is a new thing, so there’s all this excitement and nerves about this new thing.
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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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I dont have that many friends.
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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 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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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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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 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’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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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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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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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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I know I’m no Whitney Houston.
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I feel like every project that I’ve been doing, I’ve learned something about myself. It’s like I’ve cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider.
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I dress like a tomboy.
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