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I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
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Romola Sadie Garai
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I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.
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I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.
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I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.
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I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.
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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
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I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
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I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
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My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.
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I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
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I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
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Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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