Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
FLORENCE PUGHWearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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Everybody’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.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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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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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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 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!’
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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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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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