When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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.
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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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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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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 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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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