Gina McKee
Gina McKee
Georgina "Gina" McKee is an English actress. She has appeared in Our Friends in the North, The Lost Princeand The Forsyte Saga; as Bella in the film Notting Hill; and as Caterina Sforza in the Showtime series The Borgias...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth14 April 1964
life portray publicly
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.
incredible national realise youth
The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
found kids looked
I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.
people
I think it's nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.
although extremely private shirts wearing
I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.
life people
I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.
facts good interviews met misleading sure terrible written
I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.
deal hoops love negotiate peaks wholly
I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.
assets instinct strongest
My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.
course extension generally perverse somehow wanting
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
bake cakes four obviously weeks
Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.'
nice thinking people
I think its nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.