We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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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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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 love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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 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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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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If 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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I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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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 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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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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