I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
FLORENCE PUGHThe Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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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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There 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?’
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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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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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