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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.’
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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 good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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There’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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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