I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
FLORENCE PUGHThat, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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The 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.
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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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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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