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.
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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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