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.
FLORENCE PUGHAs an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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 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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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