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I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved that was really immersive and brilliant.

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Vanessa Kirby
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: April 18
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Vanessa Noola Kirby
Vanessa Jane Kirby
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Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.
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People are so much more fascinated by the royal family generally than in England.
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At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.
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My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.
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I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.
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I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way Anthony did it was to dramatize, essentially, what was a documentary-style version of that speech. I remember someone saying to me, There is artistic liberty.
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Once you start [filming] you have researchers who are constantly giving you information. Ultimately it isn't about impersonating or trying to be an image of somebody and more trying to capture the spirit and the soul of the person somehow.
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I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to - to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].
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[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!
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I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.
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I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.
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