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.
FLORENCE PUGHI want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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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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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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