Moss reflects on model beginnings
Los Angeles
August 10, 2004 - 11:33AM

Carrie-Anne Moss with Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.

Carrie-Anne Moss, who co-starred in The Matrix and stars in the upcoming Suspect Zero, began her career as a model. She liked it, she says.

"It was very hard, really hard on your soul, because it was so superficial and all about your exterior," adds Moss.

"And when I came here to become an actress, I made my living for a little while doing little bits of modelling and then I really realised I had to stop because I think, in order to be a good actor, you can't be self-conscious.

"You can't care about how you look. You just can't. It was so important to me that I didn't have that any more, so I quit modelling, even though that was really what was giving me the opportunity to act.

"But I knew that I had to break that kind of thing that you have to have in order to be a model ... and then I was rudely awakened when I realised that acting was pretty much the same.

"When an acting teacher told me that I needed to lose weight, I just about fell off my chair, and never studied with him again.

"But then I found out that it was actually kind of true, that in order to work in this business, you have to really take care of your looks and stuff. But I can't be obsessed with it. I just can't be. I would rather not do it."
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