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.
AGYNESS DEYNI don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.
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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.
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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 was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.
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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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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 can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”
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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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I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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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 wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I’m totally a grandma.
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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 suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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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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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 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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