Jenna Coleman
English actress
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- I don’t really enjoy playing myself at all,” Coleman says. “I love anything that feels more removed from myself. I have a lot more freedom... But using my own voice and being me? I feel self-conscious. If people ask me to do a speech or something, it’s like my worst nightmare. I can’t bear it.”
- My favourite Doctors are Tennant (David Tennant) and Baker. I worked with them both, too! Well, I never got to work with Tom Baker, but I was on set with him. Me and Steven (Steven Moffat) came in to watch his scenes.
- Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.
- In an interview to Gerard Gilbert of The Independent (UK newspaper), said of the name change from Jenna-Louise to Jenna, "The boring truth is that people have never really called me Jenna-Louise and I just found it very strange because I started to do more interviews and go places where people I didn't know kept calling me Jenna-Louise. It sounded odd to me.".
- I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
- If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
- There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.
- I was in Marks & Spencer's holding an avocado, having the debate of what goes best in a salmon salad when I got the call from my agent," Coleman, 25, told BBC News. "And it was kind of a bewildered, excitement, confusion, really? Oh goodness, all sorts of emotions," she said. "After I hung up I thought, 'I really can't carry on shopping,' so I just put the basket down and left Marks & Spencer's and just went for a little walk and tried to digest.
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Conscious of her height, Jenna says: 'I have to be careful about loads of styles because I'm short and curvy. I like more things than I can wear, like skinny jeans.
'For me it's about tailoring. I dress to show off my waist and shoulders, so strapless things are great.'