British - Actress | 1968 -
The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.
Sophie Okonedo
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My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.
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I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
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When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
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As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
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I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.
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The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
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I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.
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Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.
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I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.
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When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.
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Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.
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