Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
FLORENCE PUGHI got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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 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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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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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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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’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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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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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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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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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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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 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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