#eloail

I was never the princess, never the girl in the tiara. But I was more the girl who liked to get her hands dirty. I liked arts and crafts, and I really liked being creative. Creating is really where my heart is. When I was young, mom had this chest of dress-up clothes in our basement.  My sister and I would dress-up and act out shows. We’d write and perform our own musicals. I did love the Disney princess films. I remember Pocahontas and The Little Mermaid were two of my favorites.

Stubbornness is definitely one thing [I have in common with Queen Victoria]. If you were to ask my family they would agree. I’m Taurus. I don’t know if star signs mean anything, but I read them. Mine tells me I’m stubborn.

I remember an incident about one of my crying scenes. In my first work, when I wasn’t really aware of what a camera is, when I was just at point zero. I had this crying scene and I’m all alone at the bus station, I am left all alone, suffering from great trouble, and I needed to cry. And at that time somehow I cried for help. So I’m crying and the director stopped and came up to me and said “Why are you laughing?”. I said “I’m not laughing!” Oh God, it had to be done again!

I play a lady called Anne Bonny who was a real pirate in the 1700s. I went to what they call “Pirate camp”, which was basically lots of training, boxing, to get us to a certain shape that the pirates would be. With the the ringings, the scurvy; and their starving at the same time. And so I’m looking like Iggy Pop- it’s sorta Iggy Pop and Madonna and I definitely chose Iggy Pop. I just love to be different people, it’s so exciting! I love the research that you get to do, every single addition is kind of every different era- or in the future. You just learn so much. Don’t take life too seriously, no one makes it out alive anyway. 

“Yes, I’m a classically trained ballerina. [My feet get damaged] I would say it would happen about once a year. It’s like regrowing skin, somehow. Yes. It’s not the easiest thing to do, to dance on just two toes. It’s not all of your toes it’s just two of them. And it’s quiet painful.”