If we do our jobs right, at one moment the audience is going to be really turned on and in the next minute the audience is gonna be like laughing hysterically. — NATALIE DORMER & DAVID OAKES | Venus In Fur

“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.”

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I think it’s important in the stories that we tell that we try to keep away from archetypes of saying people are good or people are bad. I think humanity is so much more nuanced than that. Virginia Woolf famously said, “I am not one and simple, but complex and many.” To me, that’s true. We all try to put ourselves into boxes, especially in this world of social media. We’re desperate to define ourselves and define other people. The truth of the matter is humanity and the human condition is not as binary as that.

“It comes down to time. I don’t have time to live my life naturally. Like, I don’t have time to be fiancé, sister, daughter, godmother, actress, press junket phenomenon; I don’t have enough time for my life as it is already and I’m kind of an overachiever. If I was going to do something, I would have to do it properly. I just feel like, ‘Guys, I’ve got so much going on I don’t have time to be amazing on Instagram.’”

Natalie Dormer Photographed for L'Officiel Italia (September 2013)

“I suppose you banished the Duke from court...” (The Tudors, 2x02)

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