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 think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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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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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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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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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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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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