Dakota Blue Richards on whether she was a fan of the books before production:

"Yes, I was. I - my mum had read the books to me when I was about nine and, yeah, I really did... I really loved Lyra."

Richards on acting with green screen:

"I found the green screen work to be very, very hard. I mean, I think that was the hardest bit. And the less green screen there was, the easier it became. So I mean, working with people like Daniel [Craig] and Nicole [Kidman] was so much easier than working with Iorek. Because of course, I mean, he wasn't there. And doing green screen work really makes you have to think about everything twice. You have to firstly imagine that everything's there. You know, you have to think about other people before you can think about yourself. And that's really hard and really confusing and you can get very lost. Especially when you... I didn't know what the animators were going to make it look like."

On whether she received advice from Nicole Kidman about being a young actress:

"I don't think so. I remember that she did mention that she kind of started around my age. And, you know, I had a book, a hardback copy of the book and she wrote in the book, 'Stay true to yourself,' which I think is very important."

On how she stays true to herself:

"Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth."

Richards on how she met Daniel Radcliffe:

"We did a kind of work experience type thing. Basically the studio just sent me to the Harry Potter set to speak to people who'd kind of been through the same kind of thing I had."

Dakota Blue Richards on how she stays grounded and keeps her friends at school:

"I think that's very important to me. If you don't have your friends and, you know, the people that [are] around you every day... you start to go a bit mad. And that's why I don't like - that's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting going from one film to another. Because I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine."

On what she'd do if she gave up acting:

"I don't want to give up the acting completely, but I do want, I want to be a supply teacher in primary schools... partly because I want to be a teacher. I mean, I want to be - generally as a rule, children don't like their teachers."

Dakota Blue Richards on the elements of her character she liked and had in common:

"Well, like and did I find in common, they're very different things. Liked is probably her bravery and her courage and how she would go so far for her friends, and what she thinks is right. And I think, you know, what I see in myself is probably more the way that she kind of talks a bit more than she should."

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