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 DEYNFashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.
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I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
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Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.
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My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I’d be like, ‘Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!
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Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
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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 want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’
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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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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 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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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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To 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 definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.
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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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I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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