I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
FLORENCE PUGHI used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
FLORENCE PUGHI wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
FLORENCE PUGHIf you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
FLORENCE PUGHThat, 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.
FLORENCE PUGHFor 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.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’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.
FLORENCE PUGHWe 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 PUGHAs an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
FLORENCE PUGHWhat we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
FLORENCE PUGHI was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
FLORENCE PUGHI can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
FLORENCE PUGHLady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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.
FLORENCE PUGHI love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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