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 PUGHIf 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 PUGHGirls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
FLORENCE PUGHIt’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
FLORENCE PUGHI played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
FLORENCE PUGHI think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
FLORENCE PUGHWe 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHEvery time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
FLORENCE PUGHMy characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
FLORENCE PUGHI can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
FLORENCE PUGHAnd 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.
FLORENCE PUGHYou 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
FLORENCE PUGHI know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
FLORENCE PUGHThere 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?’
FLORENCE PUGHFor me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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