Mia Goth
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Interview
| Paolo | Do you know why you’re here? |
| Mia | Well, I am here to audition for the role of Juliet. |
| Paolo | Do you already know this part? |
| Mia | Very well, actually. Juliet was the first role I ever played when I was ten years old. We did it for a Year Six play. I had never acted before in my life, but I had this deep desire that I just felt like I had to do it. I remember taking it perhaps a bit too seriously; I was asking my mother to only call me Juliet at home, and it also turned out that the boy I was madly in love with ended up being Romeo. And we were studying Baz Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet at the time as well. I think in many ways that created my desire to act. |
| Paolo | What do you feel when you’re acting? |
| Mia | I love to act because when I’m doing it, and I feel like I’m doing it right, I completely lose myself to it. I don’t have thoughts of insecurity or self-doubt or some sort of shame that might be going on inside of me. I abandon myself to it, I am completely present and free. I feel liberated entirely by it. |
| Paolo | When this is over, how do you find yourself again? |
| Mia | I think each character that you play, every woman that you come across in a story, are all you to an extent. You just have to turn certain things up and other things down, but they are all a facet of you in a way or another. A huge part of the job is identifying which parts of you can relate to whoever it is that’s on the page. When you’ve come to the end of a project, in many ways the character always stays with you, forever. |
| Paolo | So the Juliet that you played at 10 years old is still in you? |
| Mia | Absolutely. I think there’s a Juliet in every woman. That’s one of the many reasons why Romeo and Juliet is such an iconic and timeless story. The themes and the characters, and the characterization of Juliet, still resonate today. |