Dakota dons corset for new film role
January 28, 2009 
Teenage actress Dakota Blue Richards has described how she wore a traditional corset for her role in her new period film, The Secret of Moonacre.
The 14-year-old attended the premiere of the movie in Leicester Square earlier this week, when she was joined by co-star Natascha Mcelhone.
Dakota previously starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in The Golden Compass and she admits that she felt more self-assured this time.
"I felt more confident definitely when we started," she told the Press Association.
Although the actress felt slightly more relaxed stepping on to a film set this time round, she wasn't too keen on the weather conditions while shooting in Hungary.
She explained: "When it was hot it was boiling, I was sitting there with my corset on thinking I was going to melt and then when it was cold it was absolutely freezing and pouring down with rain and I was ill for half the shoot because I caught a cold!"
