I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.