I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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.
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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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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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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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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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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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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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