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Lucy Punch is used to playing "witches and crazy women".
The 36-year-old actress stars as ugly sister Lucinda in the new film, 'Into The Woods' alongside Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick, and she admits she's always enjoyed playing the unattractive characters.
Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, she said: "I was always playing witches and crazy women. When I was 11, I had an ugly sister birthday party. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.
"When I told my mother about 'Into The Woods', she was like, 'Oh darling, not again."
Meanwhile, Lucy has also received rave reviews for her small role in 'She's Funny That Way', which features Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson.
Lucy laughed: "[I play] another prostitute. If the character is smug, bitchy, trashy or has dubious morals, call me!"
The actress - who has starred in 'Bad Teacher', 'Hot Fuzz' and 'Ella Enchanted' - made the switch from London to Los Angeles in 2006, but admits she struggled to deal with the change.
She explained: "What's nice there is that when stuff is going well, everyone is so happy for you. The flipside is that when things are bad in LA, people can't get far enough away from you."

Morgan Freeman has joined 'Ted 2.'
The 77-year-old actor has landed the role as a civil rights lawyer in Seth MacFarlane's comedy sequel, which follows the adventures of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) and his living bear Ted (MacFarlane).
The plot details are being kept tightly underwraps but it is thought Freeman's character will step in to help the foul-mouthed bear when he finds himself in a spot of legal trouble, according to Variety.com.
MacFarlane, who is writing, directing and starring in the movie, wanted a high-profile actor to join the film and reportedly had his eye on Freeman from the beginning.
'Ted 2', which is being released by Universal Pictures, is expected to star the majority of the original supporting cast, as well as Amanda Seyfried, who will perform a stunning medley in the sequel.
MacFarlane, 40, said previously: "She's going to sing in 'Ted 2'. She has a beautiful voice."
Meanwhile, filming for the upcoming movie has already kicked off in Boston and will hit cinemas on June 26, 2015 in the US and on July 10, 2015 in the UK.
The first movie 'Ted', which was released in 2012 and starred Mila Kunis, grossed $549 million worldwide.

Steve Coogan is set to star in a period drama.
The 'Alan Partridge' actor will play the eighteenth century lawyer, James Boswell in a screen adaptation of Patrick Edgeworth's play, 'Boswell For The Defence', who is also responsible for re-writing the script to make it suitable for the cinema.
'Buffalo Soldiers' director, Gregor Jordan in on board to direct the period film, which will focus on the story of Mary Bryant, a woman who seeks the help of James Boswell (Coogan) as she attempts to escape deportation to Australia.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Highland Film Group's Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier shared: "We fell in love with the script. Gregor's vision and Coogan's talent create the complete package, which will be sure to resonate with buyers and appeal to global audiences."
Mark Pennell and Steve Chasman are set to produce the movie and although they emphasized how it will be tough to bring a well-known historical figure to life, but were adamant that Steve was the right actor for the role.
They explained: "Whether it be Lincoln or Thatcher, bringing a historical figure to life is always a challenge, but Steve's extraordinary ability to blend humor and pathos make him the perfect artist to bring a complex character like Boswell to the screen. We are excited to see him make this role his own."
Filming is scheduled to start in 2015.

Michael Douglas says he's too "lazy" to become a director.
The 69-year-old actor has appeared in and produced a large number of films but insists he has no plans to get behind the camera because he doesn't think he could handle the huge amount of work that goes into making a movie.
Quizzed on why, after he directed an episode of 'The Streets of San Francisco', he didn't choose to direct films, he told Collider: "Because I'm lazy. You know, directing is such a lonely job and it encompasses such a long period of time in terms of your development, your pre-production and then all of your post [production].
"I've been fortunate enough as a producer, a producer who's had final cut on films with almost every director, to be able to share my final cut with a director. So I never felt frustrated as a producer and I usually get my voice heard.
"So that's my cover up for why I have not directed but the real reason is because I'm lazy."
However, the 'Basic Instinct' star is not yet too lazy to quit acting as he's currently starring in 'The Reach' and is filming for his part as scientist Hank Pym in 'Ant-Man', the Marvel Comics movie in which Paul Rudd takes on the lead role.

Colin Firth has been going through his midlife crisis for more than two decades.
The 'Before I Go To Sleep' actor has admitted to enjoying a prolonged midlife crisis.
Talking to GQ magazine he joked: "My midlife crisis has been going on about 25 years.
"I haven't accepted that it's anything other than midlife, it will probably go on for another 25 years.
The 53-year-old star has just finished filming scenes for his action-packed role in the film, 'Freebird', which required hours of high intensity work outs with personal trainers.
When asked how it felt to prepare for the role, Colin shared: "There was this strange paradox. How can I feel more active and fitter than I've ever been when I'm supposed to be embracing my deterioration?"
The actor also emphasized that he never worries about where his next role will come from, although he did admit that he cares about the quality of the films he works on.
He told the magazine: "I don't think I've ever hit a point where I thought, 'Where's the next job coming from?' I've hit the point frequently where I thought, 'Where's the next good job coming from?' I think dissatisfaction is ever present."

Eddie Redmayne struggled to understand Professor Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time'.
The 32-year-old actor plays the physicist in his new film, 'The Theory of Everything', which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday (07.09.14), and has admitted that he failed to understand much of Stephen's famous book.
Talking to New York Daily News, Eddie joked: "It opens and I thought, 'I get this!' I get 20 pages in and I think, 'Hey, I'm about to understand how the universe works!'
"Then I get to about page 23, and he lost me. But I read the whole thing. Whether I understood it is another thing entirely!"
The handsome red head also revealed that he had studied the effects of motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), of which Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with in 1963 and has left him almost completely paralyzed.
He explained: "Whatever pain I was in [as an actor], I got to get up and walk at day's end. [Doing research] I met many people suffering from ALS who can't just do that."
Eddie then added that he was helped by an osteopath who assisted him through the tough physical process.
He said: "We had an amazing osteopath on set who saw that my spine was changing during the production. Because it would get quite physically demanding."

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is to star alongside Will Smith in the untitled NFL concussion drama.
The 'Beyond the Lights' actress has signed on to take on a lead role alongside the 'I Am Legend' actor in the untitled Sony project based on the GQ magazine article 'Game Brain' by Jeanne Marie Laskas.
The story - which is described as a "whistleblower tale" - follows Smith, who will play the part of a doctor, as he discovers the major head injuries and life-long debilitating problems facing American Football players because of the repeated concussions they suffer during games.
Peter Landesman will direct from his own script while Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio and Michael Schaefer are to produce for Scott Free.
David Wolthoff, Elizabeth Cantillon and Larry Shuman will also take on producing roles with Hannah Minghella and Jonathan Kadin overseeing the project for Sony.
Mbatha-Raw - who recently took on the title role in 'Belle' - starred as music superstar Noni Jean in Beyond the Lights, which premiered at the ongoing Toronto Film Festival.
She recently wrapped on 'The Whole Truth', in which she stars alongside 'The Matrix' actor Keanu Reeves, and her previous credits also include 'Odd Thomas', 'Larry Crowne' and TV series 'Touch'.

Chiwetel Ejiofor learned the violin for his role in '12 Years A Slave'.
The 36-year-old actor - who portrays Solomon Northup, a free man and avid violinist, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 Louisiana in the award-winning movie - found it easier to master the instrument than pretend to play.
Chiwetel said: "It turns out the violin is a very tricky instrument if you're trying to fake it, so I got a teacher. She was great and we'd practice when we had any time - lunch breaks or whatever - so it was good to learn the tunes and the different positions because it's a fiddling this which is also quite complicated."
The actor also revealed his co-star Benedict Cumberbatch - who also plays the violin for his role in TV show 'Sherlock' - often gets annoyed that editing in his detective series makes him appear like an amateur on the instrument.
Chiwetel told Britain's Hello! magazine: "[Benedict] said he always looks like he can't play because they cut him in a strange way or they just don't let it run with the same music he's been learning, so he's always like: 'I could play that by now but it looks like I can't.'"

Benedict Cumberbatch is to voice the role of Shere Khan in 'Jungle Book: Origins'.
The 'Sherlock' star is to play the part of the evil tiger in the eagerly-awaited Warner Bros. production.
The film is to be directed by Andy Serkis, who starred in the 'Lord of the Rings' franchise, after scheduling commitments meant that Alejandro González Iñárritu was unable to assume the role.
The movie will be produced by 'Harry Potter' screenwriter Steve Kloves, while his daughter Callie Kloves is set to write the film.
'Jungle Book: Origins' is scheduled to be released on October 21, 2016.
Meanwhile, it was confirmed recently that Cumberbatch will reprise his role as Sherlock in the eponymous BBC series.
The hit detective drama, which also features Martin Freeman as Sherlock's sidekick, Watson, will return to BBC One in 2015.
The BBC said that the one-off episode, which is due to be filmed in January 2015, promises to be "one of the biggest mysteries yet".
The episode will be followed by a three-part fourth series of 'Sherlock', which will film later in the year.