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.
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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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 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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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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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 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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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