As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
FLORENCE PUGHAs an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
FLORENCE PUGHI hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
FLORENCE PUGHI always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
FLORENCE PUGHAmazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
FLORENCE PUGHI think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
FLORENCE PUGHWhen I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGHI can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
FLORENCE PUGHI’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
FLORENCE PUGHAnd I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
FLORENCE PUGHThe biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
FLORENCE PUGHI do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
FLORENCE PUGHEverybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
FLORENCE PUGHI think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
FLORENCE PUGHThe one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
FLORENCE PUGHI was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
FLORENCE PUGHI remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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