I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
FLORENCE PUGHI wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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 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.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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 really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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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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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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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.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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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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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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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