Lily Cole: I Didn't Want To Become The Model/Actress Cliche

Vogue UK caught up with model Lily Cole who recently nabbed lead the role in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" at Cambridge University. But the 22-year-old said her success hasn't come without a few hurdles -- namely the idea of adding "slash-actress" to her title. And who isn't a "model-slash-actress" these days? (Us.) (You.) (Maybe two or three more people.)

Cole told the glossy:

"I think it projects that whole model/actor cliché -- and that put me off becoming an actress for a while despite that being my passion since I was really, really young. So to an extent I think that it might present a little bit of an obstacle but that said, on the flip side of the coin, I'm not so naive to the fact that it has also really helped me. I have a profile to be able to get the auditions and to perhaps have more options than if I had never modelled.

On a lighter note, the redhead explained why she chose to dye her locks darker: it was actually for a film shoot last fall. She added, "It's just semi-permanent so once I have done that I think I will probably go back -- when the sun starts coming out! I was thinking of going blonde too!"

Read the rest at Vogue.co.uk and find out more about Lily in "The Seagull" here.

Comments

[MagdaM]

02:22 PM on 03/28/2011

aaahhh i love @Anton Chekov and I LOVE The Seagull! It would be cool if they were doing @The Cherry Orchard @Henry's Crime

[Max Shaw]

12:35 PM on 02/24/2011

I googled her (the search engine, not in real life) and I find her head to particularly soccer ball-esqe.

[deckard70]

01:29 PM on 02/26/2011

But soccer is very popular, and she was good in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I say GOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!

[Max Shaw]

11:41 AM on 02/28/2011

Lol. That was a good movie! She's certainly cute, but just in a 'life-size doll' kind of way.

[blackfriday1978]

10:57 AM on 02/24/2011

Ms. Cole, you got nothing to worry about. I constantly go on Entertainment page and yet I had to imdb'd you. I thought you were the chick played in Splice

[MsVella]

11:14 AM on 02/24/2011

Lol

[Max Shaw]

12:34 PM on 02/24/2011

Hahaha...hilarious.

[IhateFOXNews]

10:32 AM on 02/24/2011

(Us.) (You.)
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Speak for yourself, HuffPost :)

...Well you only become cliche if you suck. If you're good and successful then that's just another talent (if you call posing for pictures talent lol). And a lot of models feel that becoming a professional actor is a natural progression because much of modelling relies on acting and taking on roles.
Cole needs to just focus on herself and quit trying so hard to be different.

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

10:32 AM on 02/24/2011

She looks very odd and symmetrically off.

[ethiopia1a]

03:21 PM on 02/24/2011

lol