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Model and actress Agyness Deyn leaving Trafalgar Studios after starring in the West End show, Being Shakespeare in London, UK on March 26, 2012.
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AGYNESS DEYN prepared for her role as the stripper girlfriend of a gangster in forthcoming film Pusher by diving headfirst into the erotic industry. A remake of the Danish 1996 cult classic of the same name, the film's plot centres on the life of a drug dealer and is set in Shoreditch, London.
"I actually shadowed an erotic dancer," she told us. "I watched her at work - she was so generous with her time and it helped me to learn so much about the industry. It's great to be able to use facts and reality and then fuse them with what you know about the character, so that it's not a person built entirely on your imagination."
Deyn has already made her mark in the acting world - with a theatre parts in darkly funny satire The Leisure Society, and a small part as Aphrodite in Clash of the Titans, as well as roles in short films Mean To Me and Acid Burn - Pusher, however, stands as her first major cinema role.
The blonde beauty, who describes her new role as a "balance of the overtly sexy with vulnerable angelicness", says that - although acting is her new priority - modelling has helped in making her move into cinema.
"It helps in a way that there has been a camera in my face for the last 12 years," she laughed. "I'm very comfortable with that. I suppose people will always have preconceived ideas of what I might be like because I was a model, but it's something I just don't think about. I just want to do something creative that fulfils me in a new way."
Deyn has a clear idea of the parts she wants to play in the future - "archetypal strong women".
"I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women," she said. "Jane Eyre would be amazing, so would Joan of Arc; women who are historically deep. Doing a period drama would be really fun too, I love the idea of tapping into an era that you're not living in. You'd learn so much."
Agyness Deyn in today’s copy of Sunday Times Magazine. Hair and makeup by Celia Burton (me!)
I read this article long time agoAgyness Deyn: 'Who am I?'
Sunday, 26 February 2012
At the age of 29, the supermodel formerly known as Laura Hollins is starting a stage career and pondering some philosophical questions. And yes, she is 29 – she doesn't fib about her age any more either
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Portrait of Agyness Deyn by David Levene. Makeup by Celia Burton at Mandy Coakley using all makeup by Chanel S 2012 and Hydra Beauty Serum and hair by Neil Woolley at Percy and Reed Salon. Shot at the Corinthia Hotel, London. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Childhood friends Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn in New York in 2008. Photograph: Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic