In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
FLORENCE PUGHThere was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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