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Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

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Mia Wasikowska
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: October 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
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With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.
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I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
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Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
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I want to just do my job and do it well.
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Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.
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I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
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I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
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Dance is such a stressful environment.
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It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.
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I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.
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I come from a background of independent films.
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