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.
FLORENCE PUGHI know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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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.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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 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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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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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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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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