When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
FLORENCE PUGHI am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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