I
don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be
surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of
it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
I
had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or
anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame
for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically
did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work
with my bare head.
If
I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my
entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the
disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
If
you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
Look,
it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that
question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't
know.
Thank
you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
Working
with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without
him ever being grandiose about it.
You
know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But
you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary,
actually.
If
you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!
Look,
it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that
question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't
know.
Absolutely
not. I'm an actress.
I
had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or
anything like that. "Lord of the Rings" was like stepping into
a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest,
I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would
really work with my bare head.
If
I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my
entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the
disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
It's
part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin [puts on heavy Strine]
sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating
about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped
on.
I
loved making it, I had a ball - cowboys and Indians. This is the thing,
I love doing things which I'd never envisaged before. And so getting me
on the back of a horse, with Tommy
Lee Jones and shooting guns and chasing Indians, it's just not
something that I would have expected myself to be doing.
The
more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does,
incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember
the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading
a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, "How can you do that?
Thank
you. I so didn't expected this. I wore a really tight dress
that's very ungracious walking up those stairs. Thank you very
much, I sort of don't know where to begin. Playing Katharine Hepburn, I
absolutely did not expect to be standing here in front of you all. But
Hepburn aside, I actually would like to say, as an actor coming from
another country to this country, I am so astounded and amazed, and
grateful, at the power of the SAG union and what it does for its
members. And I hope that other countries, mine own included, you
know, is inspired by that - I think it's incredible.
It's
not just women on film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do
preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who'd had
children and I think they're the song lines of your experience, and why
would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing
themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and
you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just
because your face can't move.
I'm
one of those strange beasts who really like a corset.
