Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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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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