Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
FLORENCE PUGHI love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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 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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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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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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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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