I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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 whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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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 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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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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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 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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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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