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 DEYNI 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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I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn’t about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial.
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I can’t just settle for anybody. The fact is I’m choosy, but mainly about a man’s character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don’t even mind if he’s not very good-looking.
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I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
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I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.
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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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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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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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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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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 didn’t hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
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I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.
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Please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over!’
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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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