British actress Natalie Dormer, recipient of this year?s Max Mara Face of the Future honor at tonight?s Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, chats with WWD about going from a small-screen star on ?The Tudors? and ?Game of Thrones? to leading lady on the big screen. Among her upcoming projects: the espionage thriller ?Official Secrets? with Gillian Anderson, Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford; the medical drama ?Patient Zero? opposite Stanley Tucci, and ?The God Four? with Jai Courtney and Michael Douglas.
WWD: Did ?Game of Thrones? help open doors in any way?
N.D.: For all the cast, it did. It redefined television in how ambitious you could be and in being irreverent and bold in its storylines toward its characters. Because it was so ambitious in its writing and in its production value, it changed the landscape for all of its main cast, not just me.
