Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
FLORENCE PUGHIt’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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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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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