I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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.
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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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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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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 really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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 it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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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 used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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