As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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’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 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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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