Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
FLORENCE PUGHThe fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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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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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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