I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.
I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .
I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
I definitely don't get recognized so I don't have to deal with that.
I'm always listening to music to pump myself up.
Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.
I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush. I'd be pretty nervous if my boyfriend did as well because inevitably you'd end up working with them and then it would feel very suspicious.
I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.
I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.
I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.
I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush.
All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!
[Christian from the Fifty Shades Darker] is definitely a good person. I mean, he's flawed like all of us, you know? And I guess all of his wounds or his trauma, he acts out sexually. Which is pretty normal. People have different wounds, people act different things out.
I collect skulls; I think that a beautiful skull is a really good gift for a guy.
I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.
In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.
I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they're sleeping and there's me just standing behind the bed. It was great.
I did get a letter which was pretty alarming once. Well, it was sent to the Fifty Shades production office. And it was pretty ... I'd say interesting. I don't really want to go into that. But otherwise the response has been good, thankfully.
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on her account, going way back into her photos and, yes, ended up liking something and I was like, "No!" I just wanted to disconnect my Instagram - Oh, and then she wrote me a message saying, "It's so great to see you doing well." I was like, "Nope, nope, you don't get to say that now!"
Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective.
I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw her as a girl who's grief-stricken and she just doesn't have the tools to cope. Grief and heartbreak, it makes you do some pretty crazy things.
