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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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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 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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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