Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
FLORENCE PUGHLady 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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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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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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 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 fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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 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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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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 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 got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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