I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.