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.’
FLORENCE PUGHI can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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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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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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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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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 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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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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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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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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