In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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 suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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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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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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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’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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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 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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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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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What’s important is to listen before you react.
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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 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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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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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 know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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