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" My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him. "
Kaya Scodelario
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" Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud. "
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" My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian. "
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" It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest. "
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" I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that. "
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" Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done. "
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" I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else. "
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" I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through. "
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" When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family. "
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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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Me
Hair
" I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine. "
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" I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love. "
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Person
I Believe
You
" I really take a lot of influence from London style. "
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London
Take
Style
" I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise. "
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Friends
Fish
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" I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender. "
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Husband
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" I want to play Keith Richards. "
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Richards
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" My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't. "
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" Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia. "
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Shades
Grey
" Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable. "
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" Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time. "
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Built
Difficult
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" I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here. "
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Free
Fake
You
" I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds. "
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" I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!' "
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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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" The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day. "
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" I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path. "
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" I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do. "
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" We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it. "
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" We should just be good humans. "
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" I'm lucky: I've got one of those fast metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want, and I don't put on weight. But I know that's only when you're young. It'll probably hit me when I'm 30. "
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