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.
FLORENCE PUGHWe 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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What 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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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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 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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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