Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
FLORENCE PUGHI grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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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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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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for 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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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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 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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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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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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There’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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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