A biography for Lucy Boyntonhasn’t been written yet.
“I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.”
“'Sing Street' was the first time I'd worked so collaboratively.”
“As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we'll be so much more liberated and at peace.”
“I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.”
“I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.”
“For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.”
“When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.”
“If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.”
“Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.”
“I've been every hair color under the sun for different projects.”
“My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she's just the coolest human being.”
“When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.”
“It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.”
“I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.”
“Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.”
“When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.”
“My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.”
“I don't really have a specific formula I follow to find the right script or role. It's always just very instinctive.”
“Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.”
“I want to be an actress when I grow up. Actually, I don't want to wait until I'm grown up. I want to be a child actress. I want to be an actress before I'm 13.”