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A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

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Felicity Jones
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 17
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Birmingham
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Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
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I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
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