I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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 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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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 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 love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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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 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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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