There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
FLORENCE PUGHDuring the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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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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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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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 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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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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