I got offered ‘Black Mirror,’ and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker’s column growing up. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
I like people who do what they do incredibly well and are active in their non-acting life, too. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad’s from Glasgow, and my mum’s from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in Ireland, too, so I was always somebody who absorbed accents. I would come back from visits, very much to the annoyance of friends and family, with an accent based on where I’d been. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn’t get in the first year, so I worked at Costa and the Dean Gallery Cafe then applied again and got in the next year when I was 18. I was so excited. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, ‘Oh, I think I’m going to apply myself and surprise everyone.’ Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
Wuthering Heights’ is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, ‘How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!’ Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish – just in a slightly bigger pond. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
When I got ‘Youth,’ I also got a small role in ‘Star Wars.’ I didn’t know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character. Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of ‘Look Back in Anger’ with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, ‘I want to do that.’ Chloe Pirrie Read Quote
