Words matter. These are the best Sophie Rundle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Loyalty, support, and ‘the sisterhood’ are there in spades in ‘Jamestown.’
I don’t know. I feel really lucky. I’ve just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That’s not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.
I’ve done shows before where it’s supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn’t.
That’s something I’ve been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It’s important we have women at the front and centre.
I’ve never had a mental break-down, where I’ve grappled with my own sense of religion, but I’ve definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn’t have fancied and all that stuff.
I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you’re chatting to a cabbie, and they don’t know you’re an actor, I cringe because it’s always coupled with the inevitable, ‘So, what have I seen you in?’ And you’re left reciting your CV.
Some of my best friends now are from drama club.
I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.
I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling… that’s my inner spirit animal.
It’s ridiculous, the people I get to work with.
So often, when you’re an actor, you’re told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.
You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.
I’d always wanted to act – since I starred in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as a girl, that was it.
We don’t see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don’t tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.
I think, in a comedy, it’s easy to play people as very two-dimensional. But what is enjoyable to watch is seeing a more fully rounded person.
In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it’s weighty and serious.
It’s the reason I love doing TV – revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.
I’m fascinated by female relationships.
I’m fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
I haven’t just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.
I’m always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I’m doing.
When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.
I don’t think I look like I do on the telly.
My mum and dad aren’t actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.
It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.