Romola Garai


"The scene between Bel and Marnie in this episode was one of the most powerful scenes of the whole show — because it was the moment where Bel was finally confronted with Marnie’s humanity; all her delusions of Marnie as a stupid, shallow, somehow ‘lesser’ woman came crashing down in an instant with the words, ‘At least you’re not his secretary.’ Because, you see, Bel had been spoon-fed this lie about women, this lie which is still endemic in Western culture and which all women are exposed to: there are women in the world whose lives do not matter, whose thoughts do not matter, whose feelings do not matter, because they exist on a purely superficial level, and you are not like them — and she bought into it wholesale because it was in her interest to do so; in Bel’s proto-feminism there is room only for women who behave as she does. But everything this lie had told her about Marnie was destroyed the moment that Marnie acknowledged her as an equal, the moment that Marnie conceded that at least this time Hector had chosen an intelligent woman to betray her with and not one of those ‘silly’ girls who exist on a purely superficial level."  - Mary O’Donnell on The Hour (via wholesomeobsessive)

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"The idea of ambition is alien to me. My parents always instilled in us the importance of creativity, but never ambition, and I would rather give one great performance, a seminal performance, than have a career that spans thirty years."  -

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"The hardest thing for me was that I’m very in awe of Sugar and loved her so much as a character that I always wanted to make her stronger than she was and I felt a little bit too much into that temptation. I never wanted her to feel or be weak and that is part of the story. I was always having argument with Mark [Gatiss] and he was saying “you have to let her be vulnerable and weak ‘cause it’s part of her too.” I would have had her hitting guys with walking stick."  - Romola Garai on how much she loved the character she played.

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"For a long while after The Crimson Petal’s publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it. The production team responsible for the Spider-Man franchise had bought the option, and rumours abounded that Kirsten Dunst would play my heroine Sugar. I could not have been less interested.

As Sugar, Romola Garai dons period costume yet again, lulling viewers into thinking they’re in for another serving of Victorian nostalgia; instead, Garai takes them somewhere else entirely – into the psyche of a frighteningly damaged female, and on a journey that ends not in the boudoir but in the nursery."  - Author Michel Faber on the BBC adaptation of “The Crimson Petal and the White.”

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"It wasn’t difficult to play a love story with Romola. She’s an attractive girl and a very good actress, so whatever you give her, she gives something back"  - Michael Fassbender on working with Romola Garai (via)

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I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me. And I’m not very cut out for acting. People who are really brilliant at acting are sort of free spirits and will just take the work where it goes. And I’m not really like that.

I love living here. I love my home. I’m very close to my family and my friends. I just have sort of set up my life the way I like it. I go to galleries all the time and I go to theatre. And it’s hard to give those things up. So I don’t maybe take as many of the opportunities as I should take because I really love my life. And I find it difficult to trade those things.

"  - Romola Garai (via fuckyeahromolagarai)

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It’s too simplistic to say that people start to believe what’s written about them. But what happens is that you become a certain way to please people, to be liked, to be what’s expected of you, to change yourself so that you become the best possible version of yourself for people who don’t know you. And I think that’s a terrible, pernicious thing.


In a way, I’d rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am

"  - Romola Garai (via londonderryair)

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"I’m a massive bullshitter. There’s always a point after I’ve met people a few times and they’ve got to know me, and they say, “Wow, you’re kind of a liar.” Every story anyone has ever told me will be exaggerated by at least 10 times the next time I tell it. If I’ve fallen over, say, I tell someone about how I almost broke my leg. Why would you miss the opportunity to make a story funnier even if you’re basically telling a lie?"  - Romola Garai (via coffeestainedcashmere)

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"Look at the last London Film Festival. All the strong parts for women were period pieces: An Education, 1960s; Bright Star, 1820s. And the contemporary films such as Prophet and 44 Inch Chest were almost exclusively male affairs. I could complain that when women are allowed to play contemporary, it’s as a romantic plot device or your body is your only stock-in-trade – and in the past I have complained."  - Romola Garai (via)

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"I think acting is about having a lack of self-analysis sometimes. The problem that I run into when I’m acting is that I tend to think about things too much. And most of the time, every actor gets the note that they are always given, like every writer or whatever. And my great thing is: Romola, stop thinking about it, just do it!… I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them."  - Romola Garai (via)

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