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.
FLORENCE PUGHAnd 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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We 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.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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