The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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 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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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.
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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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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 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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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What 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.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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 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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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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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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 fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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