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 love Le Carre’s writing.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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 hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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