I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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 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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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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We 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.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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