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.
FLORENCE PUGHFor 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 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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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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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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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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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