I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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In ‘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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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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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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