As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
FLORENCE PUGHWhy shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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 remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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