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 PUGHPlaying Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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 always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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