I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
From Romola Garai
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'
I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
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