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.
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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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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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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I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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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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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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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 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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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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I 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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