The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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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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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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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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