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.
FLORENCE PUGHThe Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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 do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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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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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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 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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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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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