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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
FLORENCE PUGHYou 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.
FLORENCE PUGHFor 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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!’
FLORENCE PUGHIt’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
FLORENCE PUGHYou never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
FLORENCE PUGHI like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
FLORENCE PUGHThe whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
FLORENCE PUGHI wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
FLORENCE PUGHI used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
FLORENCE PUGHWhen I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGHMy dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
FLORENCE PUGHI always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
FLORENCE PUGHThe 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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