I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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.
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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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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.’
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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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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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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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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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 don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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