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.
FLORENCE PUGHI wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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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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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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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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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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 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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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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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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