Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
FLORENCE PUGHThe 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 whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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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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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 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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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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 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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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 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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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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