Irish - Actress | January 6, 1977 -
I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.
Genevieve O'Reilly
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
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I'm a bit of a mongrel, really!
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There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.
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I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
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My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.
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Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.
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When I was around 13 or 14, there were visits to the theater, which really ignited my passion. Going to see live theater is when I properly got the bug and hoped I'd be able to do it for a living one day.
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Whenever I do a play, there are 'Star Wars' fans at the stage door, and they're always lovely - so excited and so effusive about the storylines and the characters. When you're doing something really serious, and the 'Star Wars' fans are waiting outside, it's a nice juxtaposition.
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I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.
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I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.
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It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.
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