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.
FLORENCE PUGHI have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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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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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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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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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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