❝…it’s the responsibility of all of us to know the difference between what’s fabricated sexuality and what’s real sexuality.

❝Any young girl who’s ever seen a film, or read a book, there’s so many instances of this subjectification of a woman as a muse. I’ve been the recipient of that, and funnily enough, being written about in newspapers… is an interesting part of my career. You’re captured in this moment, you’re captured as this thing, and people have a very sure idea of what you must be. And I like them to— to some extent, my whole job is to paint this persona, and to express that in a way that makes you think I’m this very profound character. That’s part of creativity. That’s part of telling stories. But when it’s very harshly turned on you, it can be quite difficult to move out of it. You’re almost silenced by that. I have to say, I’ve never suffered any trauma at the hands of working in male-dominated studios. I’ve been able to do what I wanted to do. I’m pretty headstrong, as people go. It just made me realize how frequently I have to step into spaces like that— studios— and wipe away, very quickly, this idea that I’m just an untouchable, feminine object. It’s not that I walk into studios and go, “Oh my God, everyone’s so overcome with sexual desire for me.” That’s not what I mean. I mean, I have to establish myself as a working part of this collaboration.