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,
FLORENCE PUGHIf you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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 think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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