Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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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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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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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