Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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 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.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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I 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.’
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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 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 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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For 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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I 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 whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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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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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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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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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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