The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
FLORENCE PUGHThroughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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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 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 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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