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
war men thinking
I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.
niche film concern
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
sex dark cinema
I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
book artist play
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.
actors scene
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
lying mad boredom
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
real recovery sadness
I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.
horse children garden
My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.
character goal alliances
Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
character men stories
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
europe conservatism stagnant
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
jobs important life-is
I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.
ambition play people
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
drama thinking play
I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.