I 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.
FLORENCE PUGHSomething that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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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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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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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