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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
Felicity Jones
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Felicity Jones
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 17
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Birmingham
West Midlands
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
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The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
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When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
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But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
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Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.
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Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.
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I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible. I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends. I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.
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I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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