I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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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You 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.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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