I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
FLORENCE PUGHYou never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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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 really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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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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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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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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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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 used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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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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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 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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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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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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