Felicity Jones: ‘I try not to look in the mirror too much’

The Brutalist actor, 41, talks about perfect childhoods and imperfect performances, crying on planes and looking like Eddie Redmayne’s twin

I think about bringing up our children all the time, and the thought is: we can’t mess it up, we have to do everything perfectly, otherwise they’re going to hate us for the rest of our lives. Safeguarding the anarchy and innocence of childhood is so hard to do now.

Looking back on my own childhood, it felt limitless. Summer holidays away from school felt like they went on forever. Anything before the smartphone was a utopia because we weren’t recording every minute of our experiences.

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