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.
FLORENCE PUGHI got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn’t we just make something new?
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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.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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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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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 think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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.
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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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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