Kaya Scodelario
I wore an Urban Outfitters dress on my wedding day. It was one I had in the back of my wardrobe. It was white. We went to City Hall here in New York. I wore it with blue velvet boots my husband bought for me. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It was chilled and spontaneous.Collection: Wedding
I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.
I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.
I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.
I'm not the best auditioner.
I'm a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty.
I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!'
The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.
It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.
'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.
What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.
It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.
Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.
As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.
I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love.
We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.
I like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands.
I think of women as an all-being creature.
We should just be good humans.
I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that?
I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender.
The fight for equal rights or pay has become this thing where people expect actresses to talk about it. Why they feel that a man is worth more is an important issue to discuss - we are moving in the right direction, but we need to continue to talk about it and continue to label it as an issue.
I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?
I can't wait to take my son to see 'Wonder Woman' - I can't wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people.
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.
I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.
I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that.
The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.
'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming.
Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.
She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.
We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.
I find it easy to act being in love. I've experienced that and analysed it.
The moors have this weird energy. They trap you.
I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.
I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.
I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it.
I'm lucky: I've got one of those fast metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want, and I don't put on weight. But I know that's only when you're young. It'll probably hit me when I'm 30.
Every job I take, I really want to learn something.
I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.
I really take a lot of influence from London style.
I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'