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.
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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For 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.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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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.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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