I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
FLORENCE PUGHFor me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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