We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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 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 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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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.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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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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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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 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 think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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