#cinderellacastedit

I think I feel most like a princess when I’m sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you’re full of life.

[On her outfit for Baby Driver] “It was heaven. That waitress outfit was pretty tight, but I would breathe, which was a change. And it was great. I really wanted to do something contemporary, which felt like an escape. It was a breath of fresh air to get into 2017.”

“I’m definitely ambitious, and I really love acting, so I want to keep working and getting better. I find it’s like a drug: It’s thrilling and addictive. Sometimes I think I’m tired, and I just want to go on holiday and not work. But then I read a script and I go, ‘Oh fuck! I’d love to play that part!’ I’d love to just be that and exist in that world—that is the best feeling.”

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on "Downton Abbey". I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

Lily James behind the scenes on her Town & Country UK cover shoot

Lily James for Elle UK Magazine 2016.

Lily James attends the 2016 Toronto Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio

“As much as we all want to be princesses, the reality of actually suddenly being one is terrifying. There’s no way you’re going to live up to that for everyone.”