In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
FLORENCE PUGHWe 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.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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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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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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 ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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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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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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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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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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