What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
FLORENCE PUGHIn ‘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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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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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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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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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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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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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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