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.
FLORENCE PUGHWhy shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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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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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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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 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 grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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