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.
FLORENCE PUGHThat, 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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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 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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