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.
FLORENCE PUGHI wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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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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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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