Rachael Taylor Covers Vogue Australia August 2011

On newsstands now in the Land Down Under, highlights from Miss Taylor's Vogue Australia interview are as follows:

On how she’s developed as an actress: “I’ve done stuff to pay my dues and that’s what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20. [But] I knew that I liked it and I think I had some interesting perceptions about people as a young woman, but I don’t think I had any idea about how to translate that, and I don’t think I was able to sit within emotions at all. I’m only just grasping it now.”

On whether or not she’s ambitious: “I don’t really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. I look forward to a career that I enjoy [where] you go home to someone you love and you drink really good wine. That’s ambitious, too: it’s hard to have those things, to have the career you really like and the life you really like. It’s hard striking that balance… That’s what I’m ambitious for. I don’t know if that means I’m ambitious or not, but these are things that I covet.”

On life: “I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don’t think it’s complicated.”

On Drew Barrymore, executive producer of the new series of Charlie’s Angels: “I like her schtick, she comes off as really fun and she’s really sweet and very nurturing, but she’s tough as. She’s a very clever lady: she knows what her audience is and she knows how to deliver.”

On having to fight as part of her character in the series: “The fight-or-flight mechanism… I’m flight, which is perfect for my character, really, because she’s fast. But in the end, there was enormous pay-off with learning how to handle myself. I mean, look at my wrists. I’m quite agile but I’m not strong. I must have looked ridiculous. As a matter of fact, Drew Barrymore told me I looked ridiculous.”