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?’
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing 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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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 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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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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 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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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