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" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "
Miranda Otto
Her
Mother
Work
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" I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television. "
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" Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family. "
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You
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Say
" I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with. "
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Kind
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" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "
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" I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour. "
Miranda Otto
Humour
Unpredictability
Russians
" When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee. "
Miranda Otto
Working
Lunch
Me
" I'd always had a big thing for the '60s. "
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Had
Big Thing
Big
" In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important. "
Miranda Otto
Know
Important
Election
" It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters. "
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Strong
Ship
Know
" There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. "
Miranda Otto
Women
Interesting
Great
" Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school. "
Miranda Otto
German
Did
Almost
" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "
Miranda Otto
Looking
Play
Spark
" Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. "
Miranda Otto
Daughter
Yourself
You
" I really like research. "
Miranda Otto
Really
Research
Like
" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "
Miranda Otto
Buildings
I Love
Love
" I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. "
Miranda Otto
Guess
Characters
Play
" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "
Miranda Otto
Out
Good
See
" I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career. "
Miranda Otto
Been
Myself
Play
" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "
Miranda Otto
Pretending
Acting
Something
" Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go. "
Miranda Otto
Great
She
Sad
" I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure. "
Miranda Otto
Forward
Look
Plenty
" I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. "
Miranda Otto
Think
Clever
I Think
" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "
Miranda Otto
Mystery
Know
Stars
" The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. "
Miranda Otto
Team
Good
Happy
" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "
Miranda Otto
Quirky
In The Past
Past
" I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different. "
Miranda Otto
Saying
Risks
You
" The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. "
Miranda Otto
Unexpected
You
Got
" In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket. "
Miranda Otto
Me
People
Looking
" Every director is completely different. "
Miranda Otto
Director
Every
Different
" There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. "
Miranda Otto
Famous
Pressure
People