When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
FLORENCE PUGHThroughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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 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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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