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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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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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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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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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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 like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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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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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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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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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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