The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
FLORENCE PUGHIf 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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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 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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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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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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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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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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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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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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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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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