Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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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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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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What 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.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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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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