My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
FLORENCE PUGHThe fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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 think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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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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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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