Rebecca Hall Quotes

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.

I would love to do a British period drama.

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

I really love period pieces.

People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.

I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again.

I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula.