I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!
— Kaya Scodelario
'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.
My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.
I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.
I'm lucky: I've got one of those fast metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want, and I don't put on weight. But I know that's only when you're young. It'll probably hit me when I'm 30.
My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.
The moors have this weird energy. They trap you.
We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.
I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that.
I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?
I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that?
I wore an Urban Outfitters dress on my wedding day. It was one I had in the back of my wardrobe. It was white. We went to City Hall here in New York. I wore it with blue velvet boots my husband bought for me. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It was chilled and spontaneous.
I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love.
I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.
My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don't consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.
'Skins' was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren't trained, this new generation, this new culture.
I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'
Every job I take, I really want to learn something.
I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it.
I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.
I find it easy to act being in love. I've experienced that and analysed it.
She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.
'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming.
I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
The fight for equal rights or pay has become this thing where people expect actresses to talk about it. Why they feel that a man is worth more is an important issue to discuss - we are moving in the right direction, but we need to continue to talk about it and continue to label it as an issue.
We should just be good humans.
I like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.
What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.
I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.
I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.
I really take a lot of influence from London style.
I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise.
My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.
I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.
Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.
Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.
The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.
'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.
I can't wait to take my son to see 'Wonder Woman' - I can't wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people.
I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender.
I think of women as an all-being creature.
We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.
I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.
Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.