Интервью: "Actress Katie is doing bloody well"

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By PATRICIA DANAHER
Published: 19th April 2013

IRISH acting beauty Katie McGrath can’t wait to get her teeth stuck into her saucy new role in NBC’s big budget drama Dracula.
But even though she’s living the dream, she still misses her “perfect family” and hometown of Ashford, Co Wicklow, desperately.

Gorgeous Katie, 29, who plays vivacious Lucy Westenra alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Dracula, said: “When you’re an actor, you have to divorce yourself from where you live.
“You end up going wherever the work is. You learn to make your home where you are at the time.
“All my family are in Ashford. They’re the most perfect family. I wish I could live there. I wish I could work there.”
Katie first shot to fame when she landed a small but memorable role in The Tudors, which also starred her close pal Meyers, 35.

From there she graduated to Merlin on BBC, playing evil Morgana for five years. She has since worked on a number of films, including Madonna’s W.E.
But her life is vastly different from what she imagined. The pretty brunette admitted: “I didn’t think that acting was a real job until I got to work on the set of The Tudors and saw how people work every day.
“When you have an office job, you don’t know that acting can be a viable thing.
“I came home one day and I told my mum, ‘I’m quitting work and I’m becoming an actor! I found an agent and I got a job!’
“I could see her face going through a range of emotions, but by the end of it she was OK.”
Currently based in Budapest, where she is filming Dracula, Katie admits it is her dream project.
She said: “I’ve always loved Dracula. I read it years ago and I was always surprised at how readable it is. It’s a bloody good yarn! I love meat. I’m such a carnivore.
“Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula, was a typical Irishman — he loved language and he had a great way with words.
“I think he just wanted to tell a bloody good story. The cast has really bonded and of course it’s great to have so many Irish here.
“I love being back working with Jonny again. We’re like family on the set.”

She added: “There aren’t many jobs where you’re excited about going to work every day, but I genuinely am.” Katie is not your typical actress by any standards.
Educated at Trinity College Dublin, she has a degree in history, but has no formal training as an actress.
She was always interested in fashion, thanks to her mother’s work with a fashion designer and she briefly wrote for Image magazine.
She also worked as a wardrobe assistant with the Oscar-winning designer Joan Bergin on The Tudors.However, acting was not part of the vocabulary of the McGraths when she was growing up.
Her father works in computers and her brother has a regular office job, but likes to write on the side.
And given the amount of sex and female nudity that seems to be part of every period TV show now, from Game of Thrones to Spartacus to The Borgias, are there any limits to what Katie would be prepared to do on-screen?
She explained: “You sometimes look at sex scenes on TV and film and you say ‘there’s no point’.
“I have no problem with nudity if it’s important and if it makes sense to the character, then it makes sense to you.
“Not every actress is OK with it, but you have a choice.”