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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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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.
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I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.
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I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
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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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When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
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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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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 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 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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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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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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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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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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
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