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" I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work. "

Kaya Scodelario

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Path

Work

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Because

Movies

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" My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don't consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do. "

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Hair

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" My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies. "

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Home

School

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New

Background

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