Quotes by Vanessa Kirby

Vanessa Kirby

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

Always Trying

Princess

Trying

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

Drama

Fashion

Princess

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She’s our granny queen who shakes people’s hands!

Hands

People

Queens

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

Fragility

Insecurity

Princess

Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don’t know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the ’50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don’t think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can’t – your brain just can’t go there!

Memories

Princess

Teenager

I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to – to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].

Couple

Real

Team

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life – or self – was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely “sister of the queen” or “daughter of the king” because that is her identity and it’s all she’s ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.

Daughter

Girl

Queens

I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.

Fun

Princess

Silly

I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way Anthony did it was to dramatize, essentially, what was a documentary-style version of that speech. I remember someone saying to me, “There is artistic liberty.”

Differences

Liberty

Style

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret’s costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth’s were.

Costumes

Facts

Princess

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Quotes by Vanessa Kirby

Vanessa Kirby

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She’s our granny queen who shakes people’s hands!

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to – to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].

I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret’s costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth’s were.

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