I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

Sophie Rundle

Categorized in : Doing Work Want Voice

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.

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I don't know. I feel really lucky. I've just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That's not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.

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Loyalty, support, and 'the sisterhood' are there in spades in 'Jamestown.'

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I'd always wanted to act - since I starred in 'Alice in Wonderland' as a girl, that was it.

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You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

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I rarely get recognised. Almost never.

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I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

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That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

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It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

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If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

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All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

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I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

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I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

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I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling... that's my inner spirit animal.

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I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn't have fancied and all that stuff.

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It's ridiculous, the people I get to work with.

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So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.

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I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

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I haven't just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.

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As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

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