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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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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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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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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
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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 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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We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
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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 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'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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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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I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.
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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 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 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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When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
Romola Garai
Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
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Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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