Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.
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It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.
Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way you feel, so it totally indicates the character you're going to play.
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.
I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.
I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
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