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Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?

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Felicity Jones
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 17
Actor
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Executive Producer
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Birmingham
West Midlands
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
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Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.
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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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I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.
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I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film [The Invisible Woman] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.
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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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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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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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The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
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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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[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 cry at the end of every episode of Girls. I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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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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It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.
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Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.
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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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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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