Amazing, 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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