During 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.
FLORENCE PUGHAs 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 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 love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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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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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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There’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.
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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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