Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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.’
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I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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