Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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.
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I 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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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And 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.
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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 played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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For 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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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