You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I will go and live on a desert island for a year.- Anna Friel
Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I will be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
We will spend more time in America, we are going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.
The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
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Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
I have never been onstage in my life.
I have been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
I have always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you are not limited.
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
I play a character every day of my life, and I do not want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I am not a spokeswoman for Anna.
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
