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Byline: --HANNAH MORRILL
Named after British actress Hayley Mills, Hayley Atwell grew up going to the theater and idolizing Dame Judi Dench. After starring as Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, she will seduce Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes in The Duchess. Atwell, 26 years old, is half British and half American and would only move to Los Angeles for "a fantastic script and a director who would kick my ass."
How did you decide to act? As a kid, I was very romantic and fantasized a lot about life. So I wrote this letter to my future self because I was so impatient. It was very cute, but quite sad, because I spent my childhood planning my future.
Are you still like that? I'm not as intense. I'm very organized, but at the end of the day I'll also kind of throw it all out the window.
Like turning down Oxford ...