I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.
It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun.
It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.
I think that because most films where there's a teenager, it's aimed at a teenage audience. Restless is - I wouldn't classify it as a teen film, strictly, but it's definitely a film that appeals to young people, but also gives them credit for their complexity.
To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.
I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
Dance is such a stressful environment.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
