I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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 played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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.
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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 used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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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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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 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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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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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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