I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
From Romola Garai
I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.
I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
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