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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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 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 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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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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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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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 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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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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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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 women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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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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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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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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The 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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