Natalie Dormer Daily

I’m glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: that three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

“There’s no grand plan. I just want to do good work. I study every script on a case-by-case basis of what I think is going to challenge me and make me grow.”

I’ve been busy enough playing four different roles in the last four years, and I don’t have energy to put out some perfect image of Natalie Dormer that’s not the real me anyway. Most of my closest pals have nothing to do with the industry. They watched me struggle financially. They know my sob stories and the roles I missed out on and the nights when I never thought I’d work again.

It’s such a thing, right? So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it’s the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn’t quite as great.

“I wouldn’t be upset about what people think of me. That’s rule number one of surviving in this industry: don’t care what people think. Just be true to yourself and be as pleasant and professional as you can. If you start caring what people think, you’re screwed.”

Natalie attends the “Love is All You Need” Screening on Apr 24, 2013

♣ ‘I’m a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I’ve more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself… Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.’