A franchise can have important messages and hope to inspire a generation and still make a load of money and get [ backsides ] on seats, it's about the quality of the writing. We can be more sophisticated and more respectful of our audiences when we make big blockbusters.

Natalie Dormer

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That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.

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support girl country

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

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alive research real

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

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real responsibility character

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

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quirky lovely genius

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

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would-be monsters thinking

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

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intriguing character way

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

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stripes good-enough play

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

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law mother thinking

I just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.

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males real play

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

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spinning class past

I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].

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home running attitude

It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

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half people world

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

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real enough clever

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.

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labels complicated children

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

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three want men

When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.

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grateful games art

I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because it's just part of our culture. I've never experienced explicit, overt, confrontational sexism personally.

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culture people thinking

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

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real men mean

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

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crowns given sitting

I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.

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yoga knows running