If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
FLORENCE PUGHWith ‘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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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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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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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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 good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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