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00:00You know, when I look, though, I mean, you know,
00:01you have been in so many kind of iconic things.
00:04When you mentioned the movies and the things,
00:06Notes on a Scandal.
00:07That was my first movie.
00:08It was your first movie, right?
00:09Yeah, that was my first audition
00:11that when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor,
00:12they were like, okay,
00:13well, we found out about this open audition.
00:16Go see how many other girls want to be actresses.
00:18It's not bad for a first movie
00:19to be opposite Judi Dench and Kate Blanchett.
00:21Bill Nye, Richard Eyre.
00:23I was like, whoa.
00:25Yeah, Judi Dench taught me what a wild line was,
00:28because I remember they asked me to do a wild line,
00:30and I was like, what does that mean?
00:33You know, without any context,
00:34that sounds like you can really go rogue.
00:36How did that come about for you?
00:38So I went to this open audition.
00:39We went to London to a big warehouse somewhere in Hackney,
00:43and there was a long line of people waiting to go in
00:45and had no idea what was going to happen
00:47when we went inside,
00:48and then it was just like a picture,
00:49and then write down your name and your address.
00:51I got a phone call saying
00:54that Richard Eyre would like me to come and read,
00:55and could they bike a script over to where I was?
00:58And I was like, oh my God, I've got to bike a script?
01:01What is it?
01:01Ha ha!
01:02This is so exciting.