I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

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• Bel Powley:

  I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west

• Bel Powley:

  I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I

• Bel Powley:

  All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my

• Bel Powley:

  When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in b

• Bel Powley:

  I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really aliv

• Bel Powley:

  When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so

• Bel Powley:

  I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

• Bel Powley:

  I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,'

• Bel Powley:

  If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions

• Bel Powley:

  'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent.