Romola Garai

Actress

1982-08-06

Quotes by Romola Garai

• If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

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• Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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• The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

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• Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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• Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

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• I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.

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