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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.

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Felicity Jones
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 17
Actor
Actress
Child Actor
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Voice Actor
Birmingham
West Midlands
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
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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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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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[In The Invisible Woman] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.
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I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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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 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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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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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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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Always, my mother said, Be yourself. That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
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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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It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.
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