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Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough
English Actress
Born: Nov 20, 1981
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When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself. Andrea Riseborough
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst. Andrea Riseborough
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I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up. Andrea Riseborough
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Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy. Andrea Riseborough
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Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great. Andrea Riseborough
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As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting. Andrea Riseborough
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors. Andrea Riseborough
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I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right. Andrea Riseborough
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith. Andrea Riseborough
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As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth. Andrea Riseborough
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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England. Andrea Riseborough
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David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night. Andrea Riseborough
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My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home. Andrea Riseborough
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I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the first person to give birth in Doc Martens! Andrea Riseborough
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I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?' Andrea Riseborough
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I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry. Andrea Riseborough
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I play myself every day, and it's quite boring. Andrea Riseborough
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people. Andrea Riseborough
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I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work. Andrea Riseborough
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People think I'm totally crackers. Andrea Riseborough
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I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy. Andrea Riseborough
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Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess. Andrea Riseborough
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My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual. Andrea Riseborough
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It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let's get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted them to die out, either. Andrea Riseborough
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Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard. Andrea Riseborough
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I am quite odd-looking in real life. Andrea Riseborough
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