It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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I 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.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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