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
character assessment actors
It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.
character passion ideas
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.
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.
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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.
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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
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Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
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In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.
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I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
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I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
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Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
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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.'
My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.
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I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.