If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
FLORENCE PUGHAnd 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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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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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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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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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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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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.
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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 think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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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 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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