There is something daunting about getting a role you didn't formally audition for, another weight of needing to prove yourself.
— Lucy Boynton
Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.
I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.
I don't think I've done anything quite like 'Gypsy' before. Especially the honest way that it is written.
My absolute favorite film is Hal Ashby's 'Harold and Maude.'
I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.
I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.
As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we'll be so much more liberated and at peace.
If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.
I've always liked higher necklines, and Mia Farrow is my ultimate inspiration. The baby-doll dresses with big Peter Pan collars that she wore in 'Rosemary's Baby' were iconic. I've been drawn to similar looks ever since.
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.
Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.
All of our family holidays were always work trips for my parents, so my sister and I would sit somewhere or find a kids' club while my parents would be interviewing people.
I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.
It's exciting not knowing what tomorrow, or the next month, or the next year holds.
My skin gets really dry and stressed from all the traveling I do, so I've had to find reliable products to help that.
My skin's rather difficult to fix, and I'm incredibly sensitive.
I'm quite tentative when it comes to biopics because they cross a line into intrusiveness or exposing someone who isn't alive or around to draw a line or defend themselves.
It's impossible not to be aware of the Ryan Murphy empire, but he is so kind and funny, and you feel in such safe hands every day.
I'm a very private person.
Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!
I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.
I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.
People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.
When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.
When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.
I never wanted to take off the pink gown I wore to the 'Gypsy' premiere. It was a magical dress for a magical moment.
When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.
I want to act every second of every day.
Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.
I've been every hair color under the sun for different projects.
It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.
I've been acting for a long time - I started when I was 12.
Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.
'Sing Street' was the first time I'd worked so collaboratively.
I thrive on that nomadic lifestyle.
'Gypsy' follows a New York therapist, played by Naomi Watts. It explores the boundaries between patient and doctor - she kind of starts to play puppeteer with her clients.
I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor's instinct of how to communicate something to us.
I don't really have a specific formula I follow to find the right script or role. It's always just very instinctive.
Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.
If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.
When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?
For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.
As long as you feel good in something, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You'll never regret wearing something you really love.
The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.
I want to be an actress when I grow up. Actually, I don't want to wait until I'm grown up. I want to be a child actress. I want to be an actress before I'm 13.
I tend to look very different with every role that I do, so I don't know if anybody remembers me or recognizes me at all, including people that I've worked with and know really well.
My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.
I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.
Acting has influenced my approach to beauty in both practical and fun ways as well as influencing my style. I do like to be more adventurous - for some reason, I feel safer in that.
