Impossible Girl

Oh, crikey, that was really lovely, thanks! Peter and Elaine, I love you both very much. You have to bear with me, I’ve just finished a ten month shoot, so I’m slightly cross-eyed. I think I’m still bearing corset marks somewhere. But this is literally the best wrap party ever and the best way to celebrate. Justine, you’ve been such a champion and supporter. And the whole team at Bazaar, I can’t tell you how enabling that feels. I came here last year and left the room feeling really lifted and very, very inspired. This year has been quite an interesting one for me, I’ve been playing a mother of seven - as Queen Victoria - and also playing a mother in unimaginable circumstances in The Cry.

Jenna Coleman for The Observer (2018)

there’s so much that people think they know about her [victoria], you’ve got the diaries, you’ve got the historical biographies. you’re taking someone that we all think we know so well and we know so iconically from portraits and history. i’m just trying to really get behind that and bring her to life - really peel away the layers and get to know her. it was a challenge but i also love it. i didn’t think i liked her at first! i love her, but i don’t always like her. 

my life has been saved

Jenna Coleman attends The Cry photocall in Cannes, France (October 16, 2018)

alexbramall: Hanging with Queen. #jennacoleman

“There are so many pressures on women, to feel that motherhood is the most wonderful thing in the world and it is, absolutely, it’s precious and it’s beautiful, but that really doesn’t mean you can’t have these other things in your life and I think everyone needs to be a little bit more forgiving of mothers who don’t feel guilty for wanting a bit of independence still… I think we all seem to have so many standards on how it’s supposed to be, and I think it’s toxic, really.”

“To all the women in my life and in this room and Peter, thank you so much.”

Jenna Coleman photographed for The Observer Magazine (2018)

Jenna Coleman for the Rollacoaster Autumn/Winter issue (September 2018)

For what it’s worth, and it might not be worth much, when your whole life flashes in front of you, you see people you love and people missing you. Well, I see no one. Doctor Who (2005)

Perhaps others will be heroes in our names.

“You. Now, you listen to me. You’re going to be alone now, and you’re very bad at that. You’re going to be furious and you’re going to be sad, but listen to me. Don’t let this change you. No, listen. Whatever happens next… wherever she is sending you, I know what you’re capable of. You don’t be a warrior. Promise me. Be a Doctor.”

from her instagram

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‘Do you believe in miracles?’ 'Not today.’