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.
FLORENCE PUGHLady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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 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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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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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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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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 have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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