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Was offered the part of Kat in Tenet (2020) without an audition, but insisted on doing one anyway. It was really important for her to know that she could do what Christopher Nolan was looking for, and according to the director she came in and blew everyone away.

Parents were both professional ballet dancers, and she always assumed she would go into the family business. However, at the age of 12 she was taller than all of her teachers. She began concentrating on contemporary dance instead, and then somewhere along the line fell in love with acting and applied to drama school.

Her first Hollywood role and second feature film was The Great Gatsby (2013), although it was filmed in her home country of Australia. Her first time coming to America would be to screen test with Tobey Maguire for director Baz Luhrmann.

Reportedly beat out Charlize Theron and fellow Aussie Rose Byrne for her role in द मैन फ्रॉम अं.क.ल (2015).

Upon graduating from high school at age 17, she had to decide between studying drama at the University of Melbourne or attending law school on an academic scholarship, having already gotten in. She said that her parents were "rightfully concerned" when she decided to forgo law school and study acting instead.

If it's a real passion, it's almost like a need. As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while. I was obsessed with कैप्टन प्लैनेट एंड द प्लेनेटर्स (1990) so I developed into one of the characters and told everyone that I was the character. It's like a need, you have to change. And as soon as I've finished one thing, I'm like, okay, what can I be next?

There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

What I always think when I am asked that or have to consider that is that if I didn't get a role because I was too tall, then I don't think I wanted it anyway. My agent was never going to call me up and say, "Look, they didn't want you because you're tall," because there's nothing I can do about that. I'm sure it's happened. It's been a process in my life but I'm really proud of it. It's been a journey coming to terms with it.

I was small once upon a time. But I was always tall for my age. At about 12, I really shot up, which I minded because I felt different to all my friends, and I slouched a lot on one hip. But my parents are dancers, so they used to come up and grab my shoulders back.

I was a dancer for many years, and I thought I was going to be a ballerina. I once went to summer school for the Australian ballet, and I was taller than my teacher. So I remember thinking I'm gonna have to rethink this plan. I did a lot of contemporary dance until I was about seventeen and then I went to acting school.