Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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