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.
FLORENCE PUGHI grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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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 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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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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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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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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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