There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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,
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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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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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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The 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.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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