#fyndormer

Natalie Dormer by Suki Dhanda | The Guardian 2017

It got to the point where if there was a manipulative femme fatale who was going to be seducing the leading man, it was ‘Call Natalie Dormer.’ Every actor, wherever they are on the hierarchy, get put in a box to a certain extent. And it’s wonderful when people like Matthew McConaughey can turn around and go: ‘You thought I was this, but look what I can do!’ You have to start challenging people’s perceptions of you, and the perceptions you have of yourself, really.

Natalie Dormer for Vanity Fair UK 2016

For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.

I don’t take the red carpet seriously. Actors are not models. We have to be real people and look quirky and imperfect. Telling stories is a celebration of human nature, which means you’re not perfect inside or outside.