Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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 love Le Carre’s writing.
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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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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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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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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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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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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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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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