Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Actress Jodie Comer, who is known for her work in films such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Free Guy, The End We Start From, and 28 Years Later among others, says she hasn’t set out a plan for her life and revealed that she is now trying to devote as much time and energy to herself as she does to her acting career.
Comer told Harper’s Bazaar UK magazine: “I’ve never really had milestones like, ‘I want to be here by this time; this is where I see my life.’ Maybe that’s detrimental sometimes, because I can be a bit loosey-goosey.
“Everything now is about being on a quest to know who I am, to be able to take care of myself and listen to myself and honour myself. I think we are always seeking exterior opinion, validation and advice, but a lot of the time, we know innately what we need, what we desire, so it is a case of just reconnecting with that. I love my job and I’m very grateful for it, but it’s important to give just as much energy to myself.”
The actress hails from a working-class background in Liverpool and explained that she has “felt like a bit of a fraud” for not being a classically trained actress, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The Killing Eve star said: “Part of me has always felt like a bit of a fraud for that. I had an insecurity about not being classically trained. When people make me speak about [the canonical] works, I think I’m not familiar with that, or I don’t enjoy that, and it feels taboo to say so.”
Comer recalled how she was able to bring emotion into her characters from a very young age and seeks out parts that challenge her in this regard.
She said: “My emotions were very accessible to me at such a young age. I remember my drama teacher saying, ‘What you have is amazing, but you can’t be crying before you’ve even started.’ All this stuff was inside me and I didn’t quite know what to do with it.'”
She added: “That type of material invigorates me. The work in which I am having to explore an emotion very deeply, or inhabit an experience so far from my own, or leave an experience feeling spent, like I’ve explored something I couldn’t really explain, is what propels me.”
