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One Minute With... Emily Mortimer
Published on 10 Apr 2009 | filed in the Category Magazines Articles & Interviews
from The Independent (UK) / by Helen Smith

Where are you now and what can you see?
I'm in the Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge, in a very beautiful corner suite with my friend Ciara next to me.

What was the last film you saw?
Shane Meadows' Somers Town, on the aeroplane. It made me cry.

Who is your favourite director?
Pedro Almodovar. I think he's a real auteur. He makes films that could've only come out of his own head.

The film that changed my life is...?
I think Grease. It was the first film I saw, when I was about seven years old. I just wanted to be in it.

What distracts you from work?
I get distracted in my caravan. You have to sit in your trailer for hours and you get distracted by everything that's wrong with your physical appearance.

Who has been your greatest inspiration?
I suppose my Dad [the late Sir John Mortimer, QC]. He taught me important lessons: not to claim to know the difference between right and wrong, to avoid moral judgement, and that some murderers are generally nice people.

What did you want to be as a child?
A dancer of any kind. A showgirl.

Who is your hero?
Anyone who keeps it together when their life falls apart. I'm doing prison-visiting in America and, to me, the women I visit are heroines. I have no idea how they don't just lose their minds. If it was me, I don't know that I would manage to keep it together.

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