'If the First Question at Home Every Night Is, 'Do You Want Two Sausages or One?' It Stops You Getting Carried Away with Your Success' ; the World According to Imogen Poots

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Born and educated in west London, Imogen Poots is fast becoming one of the most promising British actresses of the decade. Having joined the Young Blood theatre company 'purely as something to do on a Saturday', she made her TV debut as a pregnant teenager in Casualty and landed a minor role in V For Vendetta in 2006, before fully breaking onto the big screen in 2007's 28 Weeks Later. Since then she has starred opposite Michael Douglas in his forthcoming film, the acclaimed Solitary Man, and appeared in the TV dramas Miss Austen Regrets and Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. Now 21, she is currently filming a remake of the 1985 horror classic Fright Night, with Colin Farrell and David Tennant.

Your first real job is like your first love - and I'll never forget the sight of Trafalgar Square filled with zombies. As a Londoner, it was really exciting to film 28 Weeks Later in places like Regent's Park and Shaftesbury Avenue at four in the morning when you know you're meant to be at school the next day. It was shocking seeing all the corpses and body parts we had as props just piled up everywhere, and then you've got people covered in blood walking around getting their lunch - it's very unreal.

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'If the First Question at Home Every Night Is, 'Do You Want Two Sausages or One?' It Stops You Getting Carried Away with Your Success' ; the World According to Imogen Poots

When you are coming home every night and your mum's first question is, 'Do you want two sausages or one?', it stops you ever getting carried away with your success. I got my big break in 28 Weeks Later only a couple of years after I...

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