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 PUGHI 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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I 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.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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, 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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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