I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
FLORENCE PUGHI do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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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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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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 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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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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 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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