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
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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.
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I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
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I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
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I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.
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I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
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If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"
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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.
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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.
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I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.
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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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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.'
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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.
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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.
I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.