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.
AGYNESS DEYNI 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 dont have that many friends.
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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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You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
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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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You watch her, and you can’t help but notice all of that about her. She’s so influential.
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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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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’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.
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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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Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.
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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 don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.
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When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought,
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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 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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