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.
FLORENCE PUGHThe fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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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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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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