Romola Garai
Romola Garai
Romola Sadie Garaiis an English actress, writer, director. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in BBC series such as Emma, The Hour and The Crimson Petal and the White. She has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award and is BAFTA nominated...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1982
CityHong Kong, China
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
nearly people screen
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
brought chip happen small society starts victories women won
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.
admiration david embrace huge love people positive totally
Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.
chooses depressed period reasons represent society women work
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.
happened happier mad until
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
strong narrative stories
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
girl school home
I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.
strong personality trying
I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.
art sacrifice thinking
If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
baby fighting order
The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
children get-well differences
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
body corporations facts
The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.
thinking play want
I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.