I’ve always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.
I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.
To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.
I’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
I don’t expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
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. I’m just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’ 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.
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. You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.
I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job. I think that you can’t fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That’s my focus.
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.
I can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?” 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.
When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, ‘Please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over, please don’t fall over!’
I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn’t hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
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.
I’m like a boomerang, I always come back.
Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. 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.
I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.
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, I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.
Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.