Felicity Jones doesn’t want to stifle her “inner punk.”
The star of “The Aeronauts” is on the cover of Net-A-Porter’s new issue of Porter magazine, opening up about being a rebel on screen and off.
“I like things to have a bit of a punk spirit to them. I do feel like there’s just a battle between the inner punk and the inner good girl. And the good girl has got to be squashed on a daily basis. She has to be defied,” Jones says. “Sometimes, as a woman, there’s a lot of attention paid to caring too much. Actually, you are your most interesting when you are most free.”
That attitude has extended to Jones’ film roles, including “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Theory of Everything”.
“I definitely seem to be taking parts where I’m fighting against the odds,” she says. “It’s getting to be a pattern.”
The 36-year-old also talks about a scary moment while filming on “The Aeronauts” as the hot-air balloon she was in with co-star Eddie Redmayne crashed.
“My eye missed the metal corner of this wooden chest, by about five centimetres. I was wearing a corset as well, to add insult to injury, and at that moment I thought I might actually have broken my back, as I couldn’t move,” she recalls. “Eddie and I holding hands and hoping for the best as we hit the ground at an incredible velocity.”
