“My twenties were pretty crap. My career was absolutely amazing; in fact, I don’t think my career will ever get better than it was in my late teens, early twenties. But as a person, you’re changing so much and you’re trying to figure stuff out. Some people go wild and have a great time and throw caution to the wind, and I was the complete opposite. I was very shy. It took me a lot of years to try and stop pleasing a lot of people and allow myself to have fun. It’s the difficult thing of getting out of your own head. To stop going, ‘Oh, there’s something I should be doing, there’s a way I should be behaving, I should be dressing….’ All of those shoulds, you can drown in them.”
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Naomie Harris
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“I don’t really do simple. I’m not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing’s ever simple, and nothing’s ever perfect. People certainly aren’t – I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn’t it?”
Margot Robbie
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Work is still the biggest challenge. If you pick the right role, you’re forced to grow. You have to raise the bar a bit higher every time.
The money men now know that it’s not going to damage their revenue to have a fully fleshed-out, three-dimensional female in the lead. Like, hello, guys? It doesn’t hurt to write for 50 per cent of the population. But, you know, it’s not just the film industry. It’s a society problem — we just have the platform to talk about it in our industry.
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I don’t know that I’d let my children get involved in that world until they’re about 16 or 17. But who knows?! If they were really dedicated and really gun-ho and passionate about it then you just support that but if you’ve got a kid who just wants to be famous I would just totally rule that out.