Agyness Deyn: My friendship with co-star helped me to film violent scenes

New role: Agyness Deyn opens up about shooting Sunset Song
Wonderland Magazine
Alistair Foster26 November 2015
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Agyness Deyn says being “great friends” with her co-star made it easier to film violent scenes for her latest movie.

The former model appears in an adaptation of novel Sunset Song, about a family living in rural Scotland in the early 1900s.

Deyn’s character is attacked and raped by her husband, played by Kevin Guthrie.

On the film’s violence, the actress said: “That part of the story was really fun to play in some ways, because you had to be all-in to do it. Kevin and I are such great friends, we had a good year and a half [to get to know each other] before we started filming.

Rising star: Agyness Deyn poses in a new shoot for Wonderland 
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“Specifically on these scenes, we were just like, ‘We trust each other, let’s go all-in, 100 per cent, and then we’ll have it.’

“Obviously there’s a kind of threshold where you don’t hurt someone, but having someone go like this [Deyn clamps her hand down hard on her wrist] is so much more effective.”

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Deyn, now 32, was scouted as a model at the age of 19, when she was out in Kentish Town with her designer friend Henry Holland.

She turned to acting in 2010, with her first role in the big-budget remake of Clash Of The Titans.

The interview is in this month's Wonderland magazine
Wonderland Magazine

She announced her retirement from modelling in 2012, although she returned to the catwalk last month for the Saint Laurent show at Paris Fashion Week.

In an interview with Wonderland magazine she said she had lost touch with many of her fashion colleagues:

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“It’s funny, because obviously back in the day you know everyone — you know all the girls. It sounds like I’m really old, but I always look back with a fondness for that age — your late teens to early twenties.

“It was fun to watch the new generation and how alive and inspiring and spunky they all are. You forget that: when you get older, you just chill out a bit more.

“I love clothes and I love fashion. My aesthetic has definitely changed over the years because you experiment and grow as a person.

“I was craving a simplicity in clothes that were kind of anti-fashion in a way. Not in a rebellious way, but I want this for the type of person I am — a girl that loves fashion but doesn’t aspire to be a fashionista.”

Read both interviews in the winter issue of Wonderland magazine, on sale tomorrow.

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