I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
FLORENCE PUGHIn 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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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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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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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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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