I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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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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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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 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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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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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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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