I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
FLORENCE PUGHI know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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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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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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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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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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