Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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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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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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 think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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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 we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful 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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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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