The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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I 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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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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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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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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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 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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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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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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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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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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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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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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Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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