English - Actress | November 20, 1981 -
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
Andrea Riseborough
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Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.
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'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.
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I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.
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Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.
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As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
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I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
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I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
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As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
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