It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
FLORENCE PUGHAmazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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 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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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That, 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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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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