That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
FLORENCE PUGHThere’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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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 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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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