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 PUGHThe women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I 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.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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, 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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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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 you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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 wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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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.
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