The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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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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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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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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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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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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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